The Angel of Crooked Street

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The Angel of Crooked Street
The Angel of Crooked Street (1922, poster).jpg
Directed by David Smith
Written by C. Graham Baker
Harry Dittmar
Produced by Albert E. Smith
Starring Alice Calhoun
Ralph McCullough
William McCall
Cinematography W. Steve Smith Jr.
Production
company
Distributed byVitagraph Company of America
Release date
  • April 23, 1922 (1922-04-23)
Running time
50 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguagesSilent
English intertitles

The Angel of Crooked Street is a 1922 American silent crime drama film directed by David Smith and starring Alice Calhoun, Ralph McCullough and William McCall. [1]

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Synopsis

Jennie Marsh, a young woman working as a maid is unjustly accused of theft when the man she brings home a man from dance who proceeds to rob the house of her employer. She is sent to a reformatory and on release is embittered against the world and decides to take revenge on her former employer Mrs. Sandford. She plans to frame her son Schuyler for a robbery he didn't commit.

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References

  1. Connelly p.13

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