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The Exquisite Thief is a american film of genre Drama directed by Tod Browning released in USA on 28 april 1919 with Priscilla Dean

The Exquisite Thief (1919)

The Exquisite Thief
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Released in USA 28 april 1919
Length 1h
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Crime
Rating53% 2.6622652.6622652.6622652.6622652.662265

The Exquisite Thief is a 1919 American silent drama film directed by Tod Browning. Prints and/or fragments of this film survive.

Synopsis

As described in a film magazine, Blue Jean Billie (Dean), a prosperous young woman crook who lives apart from the denizens of the underworld, has pulled off many robberies of the high society world with the help of her pal Shaver Michael (De Grasse). Billie gains admission to the Vanderhoof dinner at which the engagement of their daughter to Lord Chesterton (Hall) will be announced. While the dinner is in progress, Billie gags and handcuffs special officer Detective Wood (Ross), and proceeds to make a wholesale robbery of the guests. She flees in an automobile and none succeed in tracking her save Lord Chesterton. She makes a prisoner of him, but a police raid follows and she must flee. Once more Lord Chesterton succeeds in following her and again she makes him her prisoner, but she learns to trust and love him. The special agent and Shaver Michael arrive at the scene with resulting complications, but a happy end results for all.

Actors

Priscilla Dean

(Blue Jean Billie)Thurston Hall

(Algernon P. Smythe)Milton Ross

(Det. Wood)Sam De Grasse

(Shaver Michael)
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