The Stolen Play
Appearance
The Stolen Play | |
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Directed by | Harry Harvey |
Written by | H.M. Horkheimer E.D. Horkheimer |
Starring | Ruth Roland Ed Brady William Conklin |
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The Stolen Play is a 1917 silent film directed by Harry Harvey from a script by the Horkheimer brothers for their Balboa Amusement Producing Company (aka Falcon Features).[1][2][3]
Plot
[edit]A blind playwright is engaged to his assistant, and the two are close to completion of a new play, which is so dark and morbid that they find themselves on the brink of breakdowns. A greedy agent who has admired the playwright's previous work will stop at nothing to secure the play for himself.[2]
Cast
[edit]- Ruth Roland as Sylvia Smalley
- Ed Brady as Leroux
- William Conklin as Charles Edmay
- Makoto Inokuchi as Togo
References
[edit]- ^ Jura, Jean-Jacques; II, Rodney Norman Bardin (2015-08-13). Balboa Films: A History and Filmography of the Silent Film Studio. McFarland. ISBN 978-1-4766-0901-0.
- ^ a b O’Dell, Cary (2017-06-12). "Now Playing at the Packard Campus (June 14-17, 2017) | Now See Hear!". blogs.loc.gov. Retrieved 2021-12-29.
- ^ Motography. 1917.