Broad Daylight (film)

Last updated

Broad Daylight
Broad Daylight lobby card.jpg
Lobby card
Directed by Irving Cummings
Screenplay by Harvey Gates
Story byHarvey Gates
George W. Pyper
Starring Lois Wilson
Jack Mulhall
Ralph Lewis
Kenneth Gibson
Wilton Taylor
Ben Hewlett
Cinematography William Fildew
Production
company
Distributed byUniversal Film Manufacturing Company
Release date
  • October 30, 1922 (1922-10-30)
Running time
50 minutes
CountryUnited States
Language Silent (English intertitles)

Broad Daylight is a 1922 American silent crime film directed by Irving Cummings and written by Harvey Gates. The film stars Lois Wilson, Jack Mulhall, Ralph Lewis, Kenneth Gibson, Wilton Taylor, and Ben Hewlett. The film was released on October 30, 1922, by Universal Film Manufacturing Company. [1] [2] [3]

Contents

Plot

As described in a film magazine, [4] Peter Fay (Lewis), in prison nearing the end of a long sentence for a swindle, hoped his daughter Nora (Wilson) was on the clean, straight path and not the one he had followed. She was hoping for the best turn in her father's character so that he might come out purged of dishonesty. The police, old "friends" of Peter, watched his daughter to check her mode of living. At a drunken party, crooks who had something on Nora compel her to marry a drunken man thought to be a millionaire politician's son, using the bait that she could live off whatever the father thought it might be worth to keep this quiet until after the election. The wedding in the basement was simple, with a scared minister to perform it, a drunken groom, and as witnesses three crooks, Davy Sunday (Gibson), Shadow Smith (Hewlett), and The Scarab (Walker). They adjourned from the wedding on a hint that the police were en route to raid the party upstairs. The crooks then find out that the man was not the millionaire's son but Joel Morgan (Mulhall), a friend of that son, so the gang attempt to kill him and throw him in a roadside ditch, but Nora nurses the handsome Joel back to health at her tiny apartment. Joel comes to see that Nora may be "n.g." and possibly a crook, so he leaves her. Two years later Nora, trying to keep her father, now released from prison, from breaking into a house and robbing its safe. There is a fight at the house between the father and the gang, leaving one dead, and then the owner of the house catches them all. It turns out to be Joel, the owner of the house who has cleaned up his life. In spite of the evidence against her, Joel protects Nora and uses this opportunity granted by fate to reunite with her.

Cast

Preservation

No copies of Broad Daylight are listed as held by any film archives, [5] so it is a lost film.

Related Research Articles

<i>Another Thin Man</i> 1939 film directed by W. S. Van Dyke

Another Thin Man is a 1939 American detective film directed by W. S. Van Dyke, the third of six in the Thin Man series. It again stars William Powell and Myrna Loy as Nick and Nora Charles and is based on Dashiell Hammett's Continental Op story "The Farewell Murder." The Charles' son Nicky Jr. is introduced for the first time. The cast includes their terrier Asta, Virginia Grey, Otto Kruger, C. Aubrey Smith, Ruth Hussey, Nat Pendleton, Patric Knowles, Sheldon Leonard, Tom Neal, Phyllis Gordon and Marjorie Main. Shemp Howard appears in an uncredited role as Wacky.

Dickie Moore (actor) American actor (1925–2015)

John Richard Moore Jr. was an American actor known professionally as Dickie Moore, he was one of the last surviving actors to have appeared in silent film. A busy and popular actor during his childhood and youth, he appeared in over 100 films until the 1950s. Among his most notable appearances were the Our Gang series and films such as Oliver Twist, Blonde Venus, Sergeant York and Out of the Past.

Kevin Dunn American actor

Kevin Dunn is an American actor who has appeared in supporting roles in a number of films and television series since the 1980s.

<i>The Moving Target</i>

The Moving Target is a detective novel by writer Ross Macdonald, first published by Alfred A. Knopf in April 1949.

Tully Marshall American actor (1864–1943)

Tully Marshall was an American character actor. He had nearly a quarter century of theatrical experience before his debut film appearance in 1914 which led to a film career spanning almost three decades.

Lois Wilson (actress) American actress

Lois Wilson was an American actress who worked during the silent film era. She also directed two short films and was a scenario writer.

Jack Mulhall American actor

John Joseph Francis Mulhall was an American film actor beginning in the silent film era who successfully transitioned to sound films, appearing in over 430 films in a career spanning 50 years.

<i>Crooks in Cloisters</i> 1964 comedy crime caper film

Crooks in Cloisters is a 1964 British comedy film directed by Jeremy Summers and starring Ronald Fraser as 'Little Walter', the leader of a gang of forgers, including Barbara Windsor as 'Bikini', Bernard Cribbins as 'Squirts', Melvyn Hayes as 'Willy', Grégoire Aslan as 'Lorenzo', and Davy Kaye as 'Specs'.

Ralph Lewis (actor) American actor

Ralph Percy Lewis was an American actor of the silent film era.

<i>Red Courage</i> 1921 film

Red Courage is a lost 1921 American silent Western film directed by B. Reeves Eason and featuring Hoot Gibson.

<i>Which Woman?</i> 1918 film

Which Woman? is a 1918 American silent drama film directed by Tod Browning and Harry A. Pollard. The film stars Ella Hall as a reluctant bride and Priscilla Dean as an adventuress and leader of a gang of thieves. The story was remade in 1923 as Nobody's Bride.

<i>Flesh and Blood</i> (1922 film) 1922 film by Irving Cummings

Flesh and Blood is a 1922 American silent drama film directed by Irving Cummings and starring Lon Chaney, Noah Beery, Edith Roberts and De Witt Jennings. The film originally had a color flashback scene with Chinese actors, but the color footage is no longer in any of the available prints. The film's working titles were Prison and Fires of Vengeance. Interior scenes were shot at Universal Studios.

<i>Teenage Doll</i> 1957 film by Roger Corman

Teenage Doll is a 1957 film noir directed by Roger Corman, starring June Kenney and John Brinkley. It was financed by Lawrence Woolner, who had previously made Swamp Women with Corman. One writer called it Corman's "most impressive teen flick".

Maurice Bennett Flynn American football player and actor (1892–1959)

Maurice Bennett Flynn was an American football player and actor. He was also known as "Lefty" Flynn because in football, he kicked with his left foot.

<i>Waterfront</i> (1950 film) 1950 British film

Waterfront is a 1950 British black and white drama film directed by Michael Anderson and starring Robert Newton, Kathleen Harrison and Avis Scott. The screenplay concerns a sailor who abandons his family in the Liverpool slums. He returns years later causing family frictions. Adapted from the 1934 novel of the same title by Liverpool-born writer John Brophy, it was released in the United States as Waterfront Women.

<i>Up and at Em</i> 1922 film by William A. Seiter

Up and at 'Em is a 1922 American comedy romance silent film directed by William A. Seiter, written by Eve Unsell with a story by Lewis Milestone and William A. Seiter, and starring Doris May, Hallam Cooley, and J. Herbert Frank.

<i>Blood Father</i> 2016 French film

Blood Father is a 2016 English-language French action crime thriller film directed by Jean-François Richet, written by Peter Craig based on his novel of the same name, and starring Mel Gibson, Erin Moriarty, Diego Luna, Michael Parks, and William H. Macy. The film had its world premiere at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival on 21 May 2016 and was released on 12 August 2016, by Lionsgate Premiere.

<i>Rebel in Town</i> 1956 film by Alfred L. Werker

Rebel in Town is a 1956 American Western film directed by Alfred L. Werker and starring John Payne, Ruth Roman, J. Carrol Naish and Ben Cooper.

<i>The Homebreaker</i> 1919 film by Victor Schertzinger

The Homebreaker is a 1919 American silent comedy film directed by Victor Schertzinger and written by John Lynch and R. Cecil Smith. The film stars Dorothy Dalton, Douglas MacLean, Edwin Stevens, Frank Leigh, Beverly Travis, and Nora Johnson. The film was released on April 20, 1919 by Paramount Pictures. It is presumed to be a lost film.

<i>The Little Clown</i> 1921 film

The Little Clown is a 1921 American silent comedy film directed by Thomas N. Heffron and starring Mary Miles Minter, adapted by Eugene B. Lewis from a comedy play by Avery Hopwood. It is one of approximately a dozen of Minter's films which still survive today. A copy of the film was found in the Dawson Film Find in 1978 - although other copies survived in various holdings - and a few brief frames from this copy can be seen in 2016 documentary Dawson City: Frozen Time.

References

  1. "Broad Daylight (1922) - Overview". TCM.com. Retrieved May 3, 2019.
  2. Janiss Garza. "Broad Daylight (1922)". AllMovie. Retrieved May 3, 2019.
  3. "Broad Daylight". Catalog.afi.com. Retrieved May 3, 2019.
  4. "Publicity Page for Broad Daylight". Universal Weekly. New York City, New York: Moving Picture Weekly Pub. Co. 16 (10): 28. October 21, 1922.
  5. Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: Broad Daylight