The Woman with Four Faces

The Woman With Four Faces
The Woman With Four Faces
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Directed by	Herbert Brenon
Written by	George James Hopkins (adaptation)
Based on	The Woman With Four Faces; by Bayard Veiller
Produced by	Adolph Zukor ; Jesse Lasky
Starring	Betty Compson; Richard Dix
Cinematography	James Wong Howe (as Jimmie Howe)
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	June 24, 1923;
Running time	60 minutes; 6 reels
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

The Woman With Four Faces is a lost^[1] 1923 American silent crime melodrama film directed by Herbert Brenon and starring Betty Compson. Famous Players–Lasky produced while Paramount Pictures released. The story is based on a play (possibly unproduced), The Woman With Four Faces, by Bayard Veiller.^[2]

Plot

As described in a film magazine review,^[3] Elizabeth West, a young woman who is both a thief and a con artist and allied with a gang of crooks, is freed when a jury does not convict her on a larceny charge. She determines to aid district attorney Richard Templar to round up a gang of narcotic traffickers. Disguised as an old woman, she secures the privilege of having an old confederate, who is in solitary confinement, temporarily released to aid in the plan. He turns against her, however, and she is forced to work alone with the district attorney. They succeed in their plan and then confess their love for each other.