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Directed by John S. Robertson
Written by E. Lloyd Sheldon
Story byE. Lloyd Sheldon
Starring Constance Binney
Vincent Coleman
Blanche Craig
Cinematography Roy Overbaugh
Production
company
Realart Pictures
Release date
  • April 1921 (1921-04)
Running time
5 reels
Country United States
Language Silent (English intertitles)

The Magic Cup is a lost [1] 1921 American silent adventure film directed by John S. Robertson and written by E. Lloyd Sheldon. It stars Constance Binney, Vincent Coleman, and Blanche Craig. [2]

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Plot

Every time Mary Mallory needs money she pawns a silver cup which her mother left to her. The Patrician, a crook, tells Abe the pawn broker, that Mary must be the granddaughter of Lord Fitzroy, an Irish nobleman. One of the crooks impersonates Fitzroy and Mary is established in a beautiful Long Island home as the long lost granddaughter. Bob, a reporter known to Mary in her dishwasher days, falls in love with her but is suspicious of her "relatives". He cables to Ireland and the real Fitzroy arrives. He recognizes the butler as his son, but at his request Mary never knows that he is her father. The man dies, Mary pleads for the freedom of the crooks and then goes back to Ireland with Bob and her real grandfather.

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References

  1. The Library of Congress/FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: The Magic Cup
  2. Nash, Jay Robert; Connelly, Robert; Ross, Stanley Ralph (January 1988). Motion Picture Guide Silent Film 1910–1936. Cinebooks. p. 381. ISBN   978-0-933997-10-3.