Fonds/collection:
DAWSON CITY MUSEUM & HISTORICAL SOCIETY
General access conditions for collection
Reproduction access:
- No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions
Remarks:
- 1. Material was received from Dawson City in 2 shipments - 506 reels in 1978 and 26 reels in 1980. Of these 389 reels, primarily of American fiction, were transferred to Library of Congress for conversion. Reference copies of some of these reels were returned to NFTSA.
Accession number:
1979-0191
Title:
The Exquisite Thief : [incomplete]
Original title:
The Exquisite Thief
Production company:
- Universal Film Manufacturing Company Inc.
Country of production:
us
Name of distributor:
Universal Film Manufacturing Company Inc.
Production Credit:
- director, Tod Browning; scenario, Harvey Gates; Waldemar Young; photography, Alfred G. Gosden; assistant director, Fred Tyler; K.C. Stewart; props, E. Dyer
Cast credit:
Priscilla Dean, Thurston Hall, J. Milton Ross, Sam De Grasse, Jean Calhoun, Andrew Robson, Mary Gunn, Wilton Taylor, Sam Polo
Description:
- A "super-crook" adventure in which Priscilla Dean plays Blue Jean Billie, a thief who crashes a fashionable party and carries off an English lord, intending to ask a ransom for his return. She, however, falls in love with him and releases him, only to discover he is a in turn a notorious thief. He thwarts the attempts of her former accomplice to double cross her and they both resolve to reform.
- Scenes in this single reel include: the thief, Priscilla Dean, robbing guests at a dinner party of their jewellery, Dean escaping, with her chauffeur, in a car; the thieves getting home to find Thurston Hall on the running board; the pair tying Hall to a chair; Hall freeing himself while Dean is examining the night's haul in the next room; Dean returning to Hall who pretends to be still tied up; and the police examining a photograph of Hall and looking through their files. <11mn>
Language:
- Silent with English intertitles
Copyright Status:
Under copyright until 31 December 2012.
Copyright Owner:
- Original copyright owner: Universal Film Manufacturing Company Inc.
Restrictions on Consultation:
~No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions
Donor Restrictions:
Use requires credit be given to the Dawson City Museum and Historical Society Collection, National Archives of Canada.
Notes:
- 1. Copyright: Universal Film Mfg. Co., Inc.; 4Apr19; LP13573.
- 2. Distributed in Canada by Canadian Universal Distributing Company, Limited.
- 3. Part 2 of 6 only.
- 4. The running time is based on the measured length of the archives' print calculated at 18fps.
- 5. Based on the short story "Raggedy Ann" by Charles W. Tyler.
- 6. Assuming Tod Browning to be the creator of this film, this material is under copyright as Browning died in 1962.
