''The Wrongdoers'' is a 1925 American silent

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directed by

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and starring

Lionel Barrymore Lionel Barrymore (born Lionel Herbert Blythe; April 28, 1878 – November 15, 1954) was an American actor of stage, screen and radio as well as a film director. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in ''A Free Soul'' (1931) ...

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, and

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Plot

As described in a film magazine review, a druggist who is philanthropic but poor, heads a robber gang that steals from the rich to aid the poor. His son, who is in love with the daughter of the woman his father befriended, foils a robbery planned by his father. The father and the man who was to have been robbed are killed. The son and the young woman are married.

Cast

References

Bibliography

* Munden, Kenneth White (1997). ''The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1''. University of California Press.

External links

* 1925 films 1925 drama films 1920s English-language films American silent feature films Silent American drama films American black-and-white films 1920s American films {{1920s-US-film-stub