The Stolen Play
| 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 (a.k.a. Falcon Features).[1][2][3]
Plot
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
- Ruth Roland as Sylvia Smalley
- Ed Brady as Leroux
- William Conklin as Charles Edmay
- Makoto Inokuchi as Togo
References
- ↑ Jura, Jean-Jacques; II, Rodney Norman Bardin (August 13, 2015). Balboa Films: A History and Filmography of the Silent Film Studio. McFarland. ISBN 978-1-4766-0901-0.
- 1 2 O’Dell, Cary (June 12, 2017). "Now Playing at the Packard Campus (June 14-17, 2017) | Now See Hear!". blogs.loc.gov. Retrieved December 29, 2021.
- ↑ Motography. 1917.