''The Splendid Crime'' is a 1926 American
crime drama film
In ordinary language, a crime is an unlawful act punishable by a state or other authority. The term ''crime'' does not, in modern criminal law, have any simple and universally accepted definition,Farmer, Lindsay: "Crime, definitions of", in Can ...
directed by
William C. deMille
William Churchill deMille (July 25, 1878 – March 5, 1955), also spelled de Mille or De Mille, was an American screenwriter and film director from the silent film era through the early 1930s. He was also a noted playwright prior to moving into ...
and starring
Bebe Daniels
Phyllis Virginia "Bebe" Daniels (January 14, 1901 – March 16, 1971) was an American actress, singer, dancer, writer, and producer.
She began her career in Hollywood during the silent film era as a child actress, became a star in musicals such ...
.
Famous Players–Lasky
Famous Players-Lasky Corporation was an American motion picture and distribution company formed on June 28, 1916, from the merger of Adolph Zukor's Famous Players Film Company—originally formed by Zukor as Famous Players in Famous Plays—and t ...
produced and
Paramount Pictures
Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American film and television production company, production and Distribution (marketing), distribution company and the main namesake division of Paramount Global (formerly ViacomCBS). It is the fifth-oldes ...
distributed.
Plot
As described in a film magazine review,
[ ] Jenny, a young woman who is the leader of a band of crooks, is put on the straight road by Bob Van Dyke, a young man whose house she was attempting to rob. Later, the young man who caused Jenny to reform her life becomes involved in a shady transaction. The young woman after she learns this takes action and saves him from his indiscretion. The pair eventually fall in love and become honestly successful.
Cast
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Bebe Daniels
Phyllis Virginia "Bebe" Daniels (January 14, 1901 – March 16, 1971) was an American actress, singer, dancer, writer, and producer.
She began her career in Hollywood during the silent film era as a child actress, became a star in musicals such ...
as Jenny
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Neil Hamilton as Bob Van Dyke
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Anne Cornwall
Anne Cornwall (January 17, 1897 – March 2, 1980) was an American actress best known for her roles in ''College'' (1927) and ''The Roughneck'' (1924).
Biography
Born in Brooklyn in 1897, Cornwall performed for forty years in many silent film ...
as Beth Van Dyke
*Anthony Jowitt as John Norton
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Fred Walton as Dugan
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Lloyd Corrigan
Lloyd Corrigan (October 16, 1900 – November 5, 1969) was an American film and television actor, producer, screenwriter, and director who began working in films in the 1920s. The son of actress Lillian Elliott, Corrigan directed films, usually ...
as Kelly
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Mickey McBan
Mickey McBan (February 27, 1919 – October 30, 1979) was an American child actor. He was born in Spokane, Washington to British theatrical parents. McBan began his acting career at the age of four in ''Poor Men's Wives'' and specialized in port ...
as The Kid
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Josephine Crowell
Josephine Boneparte Crowell (January 11, 1859 – July 27, 1932) was a Canadian film actress of the silent era. She appeared in more than 90 films between 1912 and 1929.
Biography
Crowell was born in Nova Scotia.
Crowell debuted in the ...
as Mary
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Marcelle Corday
Marcelle Corday (8 January 1890 – 25 June 1971) was a Belgian-born American actress. She mostly played character parts in silent and sound films.
Corday was a niece of violinist Eugène Ysaÿe. She learned to play violin and piano, studyi ...
as Madame Denise
Preservation
With no prints of ''The Splendid Crime'' located in any film archives, it is a
lost film
A lost film is a feature or short film that no longer exists in any studio archive, private collection, public archive or the U.S. Library of Congress.
Conditions
During most of the 20th century, U.S. copyright law required at least one copy o ...
.
''The Splendid Crime'' at Lost Film Files: ''Paramount Pictures - 1926''
Retrieved November 18, 2022.
References
External links
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American silent feature films
Lost American crime drama films
Films directed by William C. deMille
Films based on short fiction
Paramount Pictures films
English-language crime drama films
American black-and-white films
1926 crime drama films
1926 lost films
1920s American films
Silent American crime drama films
1920s English-language films
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