The Man from Downing Street

{{Infobox film

| name = The Man from Downing Street

| image = The Man from Downing Street (1922) - 2.jpg

| caption = Still with Earle Williams (disguised as a Rajah) and Betty Ross Clarke

| producer = Albert E. Smith

| director = Edward José

| writer = Bradley J. Smollen (screenplay)
Lottie Horner (story)
Clyde Westover (story)
Florine Williams (story)

| starring = Earle Williams
Charles Hill Mailes
Boris Karloff
Betty Ross Clarke

| cinematography = Ernest F. Smith

| distributor = Vitagraph Studios

| released = {{film date|1922|4|2}}

| runtime = 5 reels (50 min.)

| country = United States

| language = Silent (English intertitles)

}}

The Man from Downing Street is a 1922 American silent starring Earle Williams, Charles Hill Mailes, Betty Ross Clark and Boris Karloff.{{cite web |url=http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/M/ManFromDowningStreet1922.html |title=Progressive Silent Film List: The Man from Downing Street |accessdate=April 6, 2008|work=Silent Era}} The screenplay was written by Bradley J. Smollen, based on a screen story by Clyde C. Westover, Lottie Horner and Florine Williams. It is thought to be a lost film.

Plot

Captain Robert Kent (Williams) of the London Secret Service is assigned to Delhi to discover the person responsible for the passing out of government information from the British Commission in India. He is disguised as a Rajah and is the guest of Colonel Wentworth (Mailes), who is in charge of the district. Wentworth is the only one who knows Kent's identity, and the two follow up on one clue after another as several persons become implicated. Finally, only two men remain as the logical suspects. To catch the guilty party, Kent confides to the Colonel that he has issued instructions to the London office to send cables to each of the two suspects on two different matters of commercial importance with the idea being that the subsequent leak of information would reveal the guilty party. The plan works and guilt is attached to Captain Graves (Prior), whom Colonel Wentworth claims has started a rumor on the subject suggested in one of the cables. However, the fact that the Colonel has accused Captain Graves proves that the Colonel was the guilty party as Captain Kent announces that neither of the two cables had ever actually been sent. Trapped, the Colonel is forced to confess.{{cite journal |title=Reviews: The Man from Downing Street |journal=Exhibitors Herald |volume=14 |issue=14 |page=57 |publisher=Exhibitors Herald Company |location=New York City |date=April 1, 1922 |url=https://archive.org/details/exhibitorsherald14exhi_0}}