“Crook Story”
Paul Porter and his swindler friend Daddy Moffat visit Paul's hometown and find an old friend, Holt Langdon, local bank cashier, in trouble over oil investments. Because of his friendship and love for Langdon's sister, Margaret, Paul resolves to help him by robbing the bank. Finding Holt a victim of suicide inside the bank, he makes it appear that Holt died defending the premises. Paul determines to reform, and he aids Margaret by buying a local newspaper. When two confidence men induce the populace to invest in a fake oil well scheme, Paul and Daddy Moffat, with the help of lawyer Colonel Culpepper, start another phony oil well and force the confidence men to buy it out at a high price. Paul returns the townspeople's money and tells Margaret the story; she then agrees to marry him.
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Cast
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Herbert Rawlinson
Paul Porter
Known for
Jail Bait
Dark Victory
George Hernandez
Daddy Moffat
Also in
The Sanitarium
A Taste of Life
William Courtright
Mayor Harper
Also in
That's My Wife
Duck Soup
George Webb
Jones Wiley
Also in
Below the Surface
Idolators
Edwin B. Tilton
'Coal Oil' Chase
Also in
Just Pals
Curtain
Gerald Pring
Holt Langdon
Also in
The Dark Eyes of London
The Nut
Barbara Bedford
Margaret Langdon
Also in
The Last of the Mohicans
Tumbleweeds
Willis Marks
Colonel Culpepper
Also in
Her Defiance
The Jack-Knife Man
Betty Eliason
Kiddie
No other roles listed
Betty Stone
Kiddie
No other roles listed
Tod Browning Director · Louis Victor Eytinge Story Virgil Miller Cinematographer
United States release October 4, 1922 · Produced in United States
Production
Universal Film Manufacturing Company
Production
United States
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Original language
English
Spoken on screen
No dialogue
Release dates
United States · October 4, 1922
Theatrical
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