Let Women Alone is a 1925 American silent comedy film directed by Paul Powell and starring Pat O'Malley, Wanda Hawley and Wallace Beery.[1]
Let Women Alone | |
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Directed by | Paul Powell |
Written by | Viola Brothers Shore Frank E. Woods |
Produced by | Frank E. Woods |
Starring | Pat O'Malley Wanda Hawley Wallace Beery |
Cinematography | Joseph Walker |
Production company | Peninsula Studios |
Distributed by | Producers Distributing Corporation |
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Running time | 60 minutes |
Country | United States |
Languages | Silent English intertitles |
Plot
editAfter her husband is reportedly drowned at sea, his wife supports herself and their child by setting up a small interior decorating shop. She falls in love with Tom Benham, an insurance agent but her uncle a Commodore opposes the match and tries to thwart her business. Things take a dramatic shift when her husband reappears alive and involved with a racket smuggling Chinese illegal immigrants into America. He kidnaps her and the commodore and Tom give chase and rescue her.
Cast
edit- Pat O'Malley as Tom Benham
- Wanda Hawley as Beth Wylie
- Wallace Beery as Cap Bullwinkle
- Ethel Wales as Ma Benham
- J. Farrell MacDonald as Commodore John Gordon
- Harris Gordon as Jim Wylie
- Betty Jane Snowdon as Jean Wylie
- Lee Willard as Alec Morrison
- Marjorie Morton as Isabel Morrison
References
edit- ^ Munden p.430
Bibliography
edit- Connelly, Robert B. The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36, Volume 40, Issue 2. December Press, 1998.
- Munden, Kenneth White. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press, 1997.
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