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The Black Bag | |
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Directed by | Stuart Paton |
Written by | George Hively Bernard Hyman |
Based on | The Black Bag by Louis Joseph Vance |
Produced by | Carl Laemmle |
Starring | Herbert Rawlinson |
Cinematography | Virgil Miller Irving B. Ruby |
Distributed by | Universal Film Manufacturing Company |
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Running time | 5 reels |
Country | United States |
Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
The Black Bag is a lost[1] 1922 American silent mystery film directed by Stuart Paton and starring Herbert Rawlinson. It was produced and distributed by the Universal Film Manufacturing Company.[2][3]
As described in a film magazine,[4] wealthy Dorothy Calender (Valli) withdraws a string of pearls from her uncle's keeping to assist her brother with a debt. A detective is following her about and with the aid of others almost succeeds in getting his hands on the pearls. Billy Kirkwood (Rawlinson), who thinks Dorothy is a thief but wants to save her from her folly, secures the pearls from the escaping crooks and restores them to the young woman. Later it develops that the detective is dishonest and the whole gang is locked up, while Dorothy declares her love for the man who saved her property.