Brooding Eyes

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Brooding Eyes
Directed by Edward LeSaint
Written by
Based onThe Man with the Brooding Eyes
by John Goodwin (pen name of Sidney Floyd Gowing)
Starring
Production
company
Banner Productions
Distributed byHenry Ginsberg Distributing Company
Release date
  • March 15, 1926 (1926-03-15)
Running time
60 min.
CountryUnited States
Language Silent (English intertitles)

Brooding Eyes is a 1926 American silent crime film directed by Edward LeSaint and starring Lionel Barrymore, Ruth Clifford, and Robert Ellis. [1]

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Plot

As described in a film magazine review, [2] Slim Jim Carey, a titled nobleman who is also the leader of a band of crooks, is reported dead and leaves proof of his daughter’s claim to the estate with his henchmen. Not trusting them, he spies on them from behind his own portrait. With the aid of the man who loves his daughter, he frustrates their plots to get the money in the estate, and is caught by the police just as he is shot. Dying, he reveals his identity to the young man, but not to his daughter.

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References

  1. Munden p. 94
  2. "New Pictures: Brooding Eyes". Exhibitors Herald. Chicago: Exhibitors Herald Co. 24 (13): 66. March 13, 1926. Retrieved April 10, 2023.PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .

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