The Wrongdoers
{{short description|1925 silent film}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}}
{{Infobox film
| name = The Wrongdoers
| image = The Wrongdoers.jpg
| caption = Lobby card
| director = Hugh Dierker
| producer = Bernarr Macfadden
| writer = Lewis Allen Browne
| narrator =
| starring = Lionel Barrymore
Anne Cornwall
Henry Hull
| music =
| cinematography = Fred Chaston
John K. Holbrook
| editing =
| studio = MacFadden True Story Pictures
| distributor = Astor Pictures
Ideal Films (UK)
| released = {{film date|1925|9|3}}
| runtime = 50 minutes
| country = United States
| language = Silent (English intertitles)
| budget =
| gross =
}}
The Wrongdoers is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by Hugh Dierker and starring Lionel Barrymore, Anne Cornwall, and Henry Hull.Munden p. 928
Plot
As described in a film magazine review,{{Citation |title=New Pictures: The Wrongdoers |journal=Exhibitors Herald |volume=23 |issue=6 |pages=58 |date=31 October 1925 |publisher=Exhibitors Herald Company |location=Chicago, Illinois |url=https://archive.org/details/exhibitorsherald22unse/page/655/mode/1up |access-date=2 November 2022}} {{Source-attribution}} a druggist who is philanthropic but poor, heads a robber gang that steals from the rich to aid the poor. His son, who is in love with the daughter of the woman his father befriended, foils a robbery planned by his father. The father and the man who was to have been robbed are killed. The son and the young woman are married.
Cast
{{Cast listing|
- Lionel Barrymore as Daniel Abbott
- Anne Cornwall as Helen Warren
- Henry Hull as Jimmy Nolan
- Henry Sedley as Sylvester Doane
- Blanche Craig as Honora
- Flora Finch as Society Woman
- William Calhoun as Butler
- Harry Lee as Solemn Man
- Tammany Young as Crook
- Tom Brown as Little Jimmy
}}
Preservation
A complete print of The Wrongdoers exists at the UCLA Film & Television Archive in Los Angeles.[https://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.3230/ The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: The Wrongdoers]
References
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Bibliography
- Munden, Kenneth White (1997). The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press.
External links
- {{IMDb title|0016553}}
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Category:1920s English-language films
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:American silent feature films
Category:English-language drama films
Category:Films directed by Hugh Dierker
Category:Ideal Film Company films
Category:Silent American drama films
Category:Surviving American silent films
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