The Lawful Cheater

The Lawful Cheater

Theatrical release poster
Directed by Frank O'Connor
Produced by B.P. Schulberg
Written by Adele S. Buffington
Frank O'Connor
Starring Clara Bow
David Kirby
Raymond McKee
Production
company
Distributed by Al Lichtman
Preferred Pictures Corporation
Release dates
  • July 17, 1925 (1925-07-17) (US)
Running time
1492.91 m (5 reels)
Country United States
Language Silent (English intertitles)

The Lawful Cheater, sometimes referred to as Lawful Cheaters, is a 1925 American silent crime-drama film written by Frank O'Connor and Adele S. Buffington, directed by O’Connor for B.P. Schulberg Productions, and starring Clara Bow, David Kirby, and Raymond McKee.[1][2] After its 1925 U.S. theatrical release, the film was banned by the British Board of Film Censors.[3]

The film is presumed to be a lost film.[4]

Plot

Molly Burns (Clara Bow) is a young woman whose indiscreet behavior causes her to be caught and jailed in a police "round up" of suspicious characters. Her prison experience causes her to reflect upon and reform her own life. She convinces jail authorities that her two brothers and her boyfriend could be dissuaded from a life of crime. After her early release, she attempts to reform her indiscreet friends.

Cast

Reception

In American film cycles: the silent era, the film is called an "offbeat crime drama".[1] In noting the film was a "cheaply produced melodrama" with a storyline that was "slight and trite", Hal Erickson of AllRovi wrote that beyond the film benefitting from actual use of New York City locations, Clara Bow acted as the film's "sole redeeming factor." He noted that at one point in the film, Bow's character of Molly Burns appeared in male drag which even if "far from convincing", was "fun to watch."[5]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Langman, Larry (1998). American film cycles: the silent era. Volume 22 of Bibliographies and indexes in the performing arts: Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 176. ISBN 0-313-30657-5.
  2. Dickens, Homer (1984). What a drag: men as women and women as men in the movies. Quill. p. 103. ISBN 0-688-02626-5.
  3. Jonathon Green, Nicholas J. Karolides (2005). The encyclopedia of censorship. Infobase Publishing. ISBN 0-8160-4464-3.
  4. "Lawful Cheaters". Silentera.com. July 12, 2007. Retrieved January 24, 2012. External link in |publisher= (help)
  5. Erickson, Hal. "Lawful Cheaters (1925)". AllRovi. Retrieved January 24, 2012.
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