You Can't Get Away with It
{{short description|1923 film}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2020}}
{{Infobox film
| name = You Can't Get Away with It
| image = You Can't Get Away with It (1923) - 1.jpg
| caption = Advertisement
| director = Rowland V. Lee
| producer = William Fox
| writer = Robert N. Lee
Gouverneur Morris
| narrator =
| starring = Percy Marmont
Malcolm McGregor
Betty Bouton
| music =
| editing =
| cinematography = G.O. Post
| studio = Fox Film Corporation
| distributor = Fox Film Corporation
| released = {{Film date|1923|12|09}}
| runtime = 6 reels
| country = United States
| language = Silent (English intertitles)
| budget =
| gross =
}}
You Can't Get Away with It is a 1923 American silent romantic drama film directed by Rowland V. Lee and starring Percy Marmont, Malcolm McGregor, and Betty Bouton.Solomon p. 286
Plot
As described in a film magazine review,{{cite journal |last=Pardy |first=George T. |author-link= |title=Feature Previews: You Can't Get Away with It |journal=Exhibitors Trade Review |volume=15 |issue=3 |page=25 |publisher=Exhibitors Review Publishing Corporation |date=15 December 1923 |location=New York |url=https://archive.org/details/exhibit00newy/page/n172/mode/1up |accessdate=27 April 2022}} {{Source-attribution}} Jill, Jane, and May Mackie are left penniless when their father dies. They obtain employment but department store work breaks down Jill's health. Charles Hemingway, cursed with a selfish, unsympathetic wife, grows fond of Jill and she goes to live with him. Later, he dies and she has an opportunity to marry Henry Adams. Facing exposure, she confesses her past. He discards her and she returns to work as a store clerk, convinced that there is no escape from the penalties of doing wrong.
==Cast==
{{Cast listing|
- Percy Marmont as Charles Hemingway
- Malcolm McGregor as Henry Adams
- Betty Bouton as Jill Mackie
- Barbara Tennant as Jane Mackie
- Grace Morse as May Mackie
- Clarissa Selwynne as Mrs. Hemingway
- Charles Cruz as Charles Hemingway Jr.
}}
Preservation
With no prints of You Can't Get Away with It located in any film archives,[http://lcweb2.loc.gov:8081/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.10892/default.html Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: You Can't Get Away with It] it is a lost film.
References
{{Reflist}}
Bibliography
- Solomon, Aubrey. The Fox Film Corporation, 1915-1935: A History and Filmography. McFarland, 2011.
External links
- {{IMDb title|0014632}}
{{Rowland V. Lee}}
Category:Films directed by Rowland V. Lee
Category:Films set in department stores
Category:American silent feature films
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:Lost American drama films
Category:English-language drama films
Category:1920s English-language films
Category:Silent American drama films
Category:Lost silent American films
{{1920s-silent-drama-film-stub}}