The Stealers

7 reelsCountryUnited StatesLanguageSilent (English intertitles)

The Stealers is a 1920 American silent drama film directed by Christy Cabanne.^[1]

Plot

As described in a film magazine,^[2] Rev. Robert Martin (Tooker) is an ex-minister who has lost his faith because of his wife's faithlessness, and taken up a life of crime as head of a band of pickpockets masquerading as religious workers who ply their trade in the wake of a traveling carnival company. He tries to keep the true nature of his work secret from his daughter Julie (Shearer), but she learns the truth while traveling with his band for a week. One by one the members of the band are regenerated through a renewal of their faith. Stephen Gregory (Miller), the last of the band to find solace in faith, tries upon a wager to induce his friend Mary Forrest (Dwyer) to leave the man she married while he is under arrest and to go with him.

Cast

• William H. Tooker as Rev. Robert Martin
• Robert Kenyon as Robert Martin (while a young man)
• Myrtle Morse as Mrs. Martin
• Norma Shearer as Julie Martin
• Ruth Dwyer as Mary Forrest
• Eugene Borden as Sam Gregory
• Jack Crosby as Raymond Pritchard
• Matthew Betz as Bert Robinson
• John B. O'Brien as Man of Dawn
• Downing Clarke as Major Wellington
• Walter Miller as Stephen Gregory

References

Bibliography

• Jack Jacobs and Myron Braum. The Films of Norma Shearer. A. S. Barnes, 1976.

External links

• The Stealers at IMDb