''The Angel of Crooked Street'' is a 1922 American
silent crime
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drama film
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directed by
David Smith and starring
Alice Calhoun
Alice Beatrice Calhoun (November 21, 1900 – June 3, 1966) was an American silent film actress.
Film star
Born in Cleveland, Ohio, she made her film debut in an uncredited role in 1918 and went on to appear in another forty-seven films betw ...
,
Ralph McCullough
Ralph McCullough (1895–1943) was an American film actor of the silent era who occasionally played male leads as well as more numerous supporting roles. Later in his career he mostly appeared in smaller, often uncredited, roles in the sound er ...
and
William McCall.
[Connelly p.13]
Synopsis
Jennie Marsh, a young woman working as a
maid is unjustly accused of theft when the man she brings home a man from dance who proceeds to rob the house of her employer. She is sent to a
reformatory
A reformatory or reformatory school is a youth detention center or an adult correctional facility popular during the late 19th and early 20th centuries in Western countries. In the United Kingdom and United States, they came out of social concern ...
and on release is embittered against the world and decides to take revenge on her former employer Mrs. Sandford. She plans to frame her son Schuyler for a robbery he didn't commit.
Cast
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Alice Calhoun
Alice Beatrice Calhoun (November 21, 1900 – June 3, 1966) was an American silent film actress.
Film star
Born in Cleveland, Ohio, she made her film debut in an uncredited role in 1918 and went on to appear in another forty-seven films betw ...
as Jennie Marsh
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Ralph McCullough
Ralph McCullough (1895–1943) was an American film actor of the silent era who occasionally played male leads as well as more numerous supporting roles. Later in his career he mostly appeared in smaller, often uncredited, roles in the sound er ...
as Schuyler Sanford
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Scott McKee as 'Silent' McKay
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Rex Hammel as 'Kid Glove' Thurston
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William McCall as 'Cap' Berry
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Nellie Anderson as 'Mother' De Vere
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Martha Mattox
Martha Mattox (June 19, 1879 – May 2, 1933) was an American silent film actress most notable for her role of Mammy Pleasant in the 1927 film '' The Cat and the Canary''. She also played a role in ''Torrent'' (1926). She died from a heart ...
as Mrs. Phineas Sandford
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Mary Young as Mrs. Marsh
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George Stanley
Colonel George Francis Gillman Stanley (July 6, 1907September 13, 2002) was a Canadian historian, author, soldier, teacher, public servant, and designer of the Canadian flag.
Early life and education
George F.G. Stanley was born in Calgary, Alb ...
as Stoneham
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Walter Cooper as Dan Bolton
References
Bibliography
* Connelly, Robert B. ''The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36, Volume 40, Issue 2''. December Press, 1998.
* Munden, Kenneth White. ''The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1''. University of California Press, 1997.
External links
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1922 films
1922 drama films
1920s English-language films
American silent feature films
American black-and-white films
Films directed by David Smith (director)
Vitagraph Studios films
1920s American films
Silent American drama films
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