| The Wise Kid | |
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| Directed by | Tod Browning |
| Written by | Wallace Clifton |
| Story by | William Slavens McNutt |
| Starring | Gladys Walton David Butler |
| Cinematography | William Fildew |
| Distributed by | Universal Film Manufacturing Company |
Release date |
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Running time | 5 reels |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
The Wise Kid is a lost 1922 American silent comedy film directed by Tod Browning. [1]
As described in a film magazine, [2] restaurant cashier Rosie Cooper (Walton) is in love with bakery worker Freddie Smith (Butler), but when she helps out customer Jefferson Southwick (Barrows), who has forgotten his pocketbook, Jimmie becomes jealous. Southwick poses as the son of a wealthy merchant, but when they discover his accounts are short, he borrows one hundred dollars from Rosie and then attempts to skip town. She is too smart for him, though, and he lands in jail. Rosie gets her money back and is content with the attentions of Freddie, who is honest even if he is poor.
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Omar the Tentmaker is a 1922 American silent drama film directed by James Young and featuring Guy Bates Post, Nigel de Brulier, Virginia Brown Faire, Noah Beery Sr., Patsy Ruth Miller and Boris Karloff. It was produced and adapted by Richard Walton Tully from his own 1914 Broadway play Omar Khayyam the Tentmaker. The film's tagline was "Would You Know How Omar Loved? Would you sweep 1,000 years aside to find Shireen, the Persian Rose, who wed Omar and awoke in the harem of the Shah?". The film is considered a lost film.
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