''Broad Daylight'' is a 1922 American silent crime film directed by

Irving Cummings Irving Caminsky (October 9, 1888 – April 18, 1959) was an American movie actor and director. Career Born in New York City, Cummings started his acting career at age 16 in ''Diplomacy''. His Broadway, performances included ''In the Long ...

and written by

Harvey Gates Harvey Harris Gates (January 19, 1894 – November 4, 1948) was an American screenwriter of the silent era. He wrote for more than 200 films between 1913 and 1948. He was born in Hawaii and died in Los Angeles, California. Selected filmogra ...

. The film stars Lois Wilson,

Jack Mulhall John Joseph Francis Mulhall (October 7, 1887 – June 1, 1979) was an American film actor beginning in the silent film era who successfully transitioned to sound films, appearing in over 430 films in a career spanning 50 years. Early years Mu ...

, Ralph Lewis, Kenneth Gibson,

Wilton Taylor Wilton Taylor (1869 – January 24, 1925) was an American stage and silent screen actor. He usually played gruff men of authority like wardens, judges or the police commissioner in Tod Browning's '' Outside the Law'' (1920). Of some other su ...

, and Ben Hewlett. The film was released on October 30, 1922, by

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Plot

As described in a

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, Peter Fay (Lewis), in prison nearing the end of a long sentence for a swindle, hoped his daughter Nora (Wilson) was on the clean, straight path and not the one he had followed. She was hoping for the best turn in her father's character so that he might come out purged of dishonesty. The police, old "friends" of Peter, watched his daughter to check her mode of living. At a drunken party, crooks who had something on Nora compel her to marry a drunken man thought to be a millionaire politician's son, using the bait that she could live off whatever the father thought it might be worth to keep this quiet until after the election. The wedding in the basement was simple, with a scared minister to perform it, a drunken groom, and as witnesses three crooks, Davy Sunday (Gibson), Shadow Smith (Hewlett), and The Scarab (Walker). They adjourned from the wedding on a hint that the police were en route to raid the party upstairs. The crooks then find out that the man was not the millionaire's son but Joel Morgan (Mulhall), a friend of that son, so the gang attempt to kill him and throw him in a roadside ditch, but Nora nurses the handsome Joel back to health at her tiny apartment. Joel comes to see that Nora may be "n.g." and possibly a crook, so he leaves her. Two years later Nora, trying to keep her father, now released from prison, from breaking into a house and robbing its safe. There is a fight at the house between the father and the gang, leaving one dead, and then the owner of the house catches them all. It turns out to be Joel, the owner of the house who has cleaned up his life. In spite of the evidence against her, Joel protects Nora and uses this opportunity granted by fate to reunite with her.

Cast

* Lois Wilson as Nora Fay *

as Joel Morgan * Ralph Lewis as Peter Fay *Kenneth Gibson as Davy Sunday *

as Detective Marks *Ben Hewlett as Shadow Smith * Robert Walker as The Scarab

Preservation

No copies of ''Broad Daylight'' are listed as held by any film archives,Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: ''Broad Daylight''
/ref> so it is a

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References

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* * {{Irving Cummings 1922 films 1922 lost films American crime films 1922 crime films Universal Pictures films Films directed by Irving Cummings American silent feature films American black-and-white films 1920s American films