Love's Prisoner
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American silent
crime drama Crime films, in the broadest sense, is a film genre inspired by and analogous to the crime fiction literary genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and its detection. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combin ...
film starring
Olive Thomas Olive Thomas (born Oliva R. Duffy; October 20, 1894 – September 10, 1920) was an American silent-film actress, art model, and photo model. Thomas began her career as an illustrator's model in 1914, and moved on to the ''Ziegfeld Follies'' th ...
. Written by E. Magnus Ingleton, the film was directed by John Francis Dillion.Progressive Silent Film List: ''Love's Prisoner''
at silentera.com


Plot

A poor girl named Nancy (Olive Thomas) leaves to take care of her two younger sisters, Sadie (Ann Forrest) and Jane (Dolly Dare), while their father (Walter Perry), who is a former criminal, is sent to prison for a crime which he has not committed and dies there. At that time Jonathan Twist, a quaint philosopher and their somewhat mysterious neighbor who operates a watch repair shop and part-time fence, offers them help, and Nancy finds with his help a job as a seller of Cocoa Climax. Nancy marries a British businessman and peer Lord Cleveland, and she becomes Lady Cleveland. However, Lord Cleveland dies very soon without a will. Nancy does not have enough income to keep up the estates of Lord Cleveland in England, which pass to his other relatives, but receives the palatial home in America. She manages to keep this home and its servants without any visible means of support, and during this time the activities of a crook called by the police "The Bird" are mystifying the authorities. On the night of a reception at her house, there is a large diamond theft, and Jim Garside is detailed to catch The Bird. Jim discovers that Nancy is The Bird and Jonathan is her fence for the jewels she has taken, where much of the moneys have gone to the poor. Jim maintains her works for charity while she serves out her prison term, and in the end they are married.


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''Love's Prisoner''
at the silentsaregolden.com

* 1919 films American silent feature films American black-and-white films American crime drama films Films directed by John Francis Dillon 1919 crime drama films 1910s American films Silent American drama films {{silent-crime-drama-film-stub