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Genre
  
Drama

Cinematography
  
William Marshall

Duration
  

Language
  
Silent

6/10
IMDb

Director
  
Paul Powell

Story by
  
Samuel Merwin

Country
  
USA

Crooked Streets movie poster

Cast
  
Ethel Clayton
(Gail Ellis),
Jack Holt
(Rupert O'Dare),
Clyde Fillmore
(Lawrence Griswold),
Clarence Geldart
(Silas Griswold),
Josephine Crowell
(Mrs. Griswold),
Josephine Crowell
(Sailor Hugh)

Release date
  
August 8, 1920 (1920-08-08)

Based on
  
"Dinner at Eight"  by Samuel Merwin

Writer
  
Edith M. Kennedy, Samuel Merwin (story)

Produced by
  
Adolph Zukor, Jesse L. Lasky

Similar movies
  
Pollyanna (1920), The Roaring Road (1919), MLiss (1918), The Sheik (1921), Moran of the Lady Letty (1922)

Crooked Streets is a 1920 American silent drama spy film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It is one of star Ethel Clayton's rare surviving silent films with a copy at the Library of Congress. The film is based on a short story, "Dinner at Eight", by Samuel Merwin.

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Plot

As described in a film magazine, Gail Ellis (Clayton) is employed as a secretary by Professor Lawrence Griswold (Fillmore) prior to his departure from San Francisco for Shanghai, ostensibly in that city to purchase some rare vases. In the city she meets with adventures while trying to find the headquarters of the pottery merchants and is saved from molestation by Englishman Rupert O'Dare (Holt), who has to battle a drunken sailor in a boxing ring before the latter will leave her alone. As the Griswolds are about to depart for America, having purchased several cases of vases that contain opium, Rupert causes them to be arrested. They overpower him and are about to escape when Gail arrives with officers and apprehends them. Rupert then confesses that he is a member of the British secret service and Gail says that she is Ellis of the U.S. Secret Service, and that Rupert had forced her hand as she had intended to arrest the Griswolds in San Francisco. They find happiness in each other's company, and later sail to England as Mr. and Mrs. O'Dare.

Cast

  • Ethel Clayton as Gail Ellis
  • Jack Holt as Rupert O'Dare
  • Clyde Fillmore as Lawrence Griswold (*Clyde Fillmore)
  • Clarence Geldart as Silas Griswold
  • Josephine Crowell as Mrs. Griswold
  • Fred Starr as Sailor Hugh
  • References

    Crooked Streets Wikipedia
    Crooked Streets IMDb Crooked Streets themoviedb.org