Silk Stocking Sal

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Directed by Tod Browning
Written by Richard Schayer
Starring Evelyn Brent
Robert Ellis
CinematographySilvano Balboni
Production
company
Gothic Pictures
Distributed by Film Booking Offices of America (FBO)
Release date
  • November 30, 1924 (1924-11-30)
Running time
5 reels
CountryUnited States
Language Silent (English intertitles)

Silk Stocking Sal is a 1924 American drama film directed by Tod Browning and starring Evelyn Brent. [1] [2]

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Plot

As described in a review in a film magazine, [3] member of an underworld gang Sal (Brent), while robbing a safe in a house, is surprised by the owner Bob Cooper (Ellis), who falls for her story and gives her enough money to go straight. She laughs at him, but her mother's sympathy makes an impression on her so she takes a job at Bob's office. Bob's partner is murdered, and Bob is convicted and sentenced, based upon circumstantial evidence, to death in the electric chair. Sal is so sure that Bull Reagan (Metcalfe), leader of a gang, is the murderer that she rejoins the gang. At the last minute, she taunts a confession out of him. Bob is saved and finds happiness with Sal.

Cast

Promotion

A theater in Waterloo, Iowa, reportedly handed out a pair of silk stockings as a promotion to viewers. [2]

Preservation

With no prints of Silk Stocking Sal located in any film archives, [4] it, as with most FBO films of the mid-1920s, is a lost film.

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References

  1. "Progressive Silent Film List: Silk Stocking Sal". Silent Era. Retrieved May 8, 2008.
  2. 1 2 Kear, Lynn; King, James (2009). Evelyn Brent: The Life and Films of Hollywood's Lady Crook . McFarland. p.  142. ISBN   978-0-7864-4363-5.
  3. Sewell, Charles S. (January 3, 1925). "Silk Stocking Sal; Good Handling Develops Good Suspense and Punch in F.B.O. Crook Story". The Moving Picture World. New York City: Chalmers Publishing Co. 72 (1): 60.
  4. "Silk Stocking Sal". American Silent Feature Film Survival Database. Retrieved January 9, 2014.