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The Third Degree is a american film of genre Drama directed by Tom Terriss released in USA on 19 may 1919 with Alice Joyce

The Third Degree (1919)

The Third Degree
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Released in USA 19 may 1919
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Crime,    Romance

The Third Degree was a 1919 American silent crime drama produced and distributed by the Vitagraph Company of America. It is based on the 1909 play of the same name by Charles Klein.

Filmed several times throughout the silent era, this version starred Alice Joyce with actress/gossip columnist Hedda Hopper in a supporting role and was the next to last silent version of the play, the last being released in 1926 starring Dolores Costello. The Third Degree is now considered to be a lost film.

Synopsis

As described in a film magazine, Howard Jeffries, Sr. (Randolf) marries again, and the film reveals that the new Mrs. Howard Jeffries, Sr. (Hopper) and Robert Underwood (Evans), the rather fast college roommate of Howard Jeffries, Jr. (James), had been more than just friends. Howard Jr. marries Annie Sands (Joyce), who had been a lovely waitress in the college town. When the father hears who the bride is, there is a flare up and the young couple leave the house. Underwood opens a curio store, but loses money that does not belong to him. He writes to Mrs. Jeffries, Sr. and says that if she does not come to him, he will shoot himself. Howard Jr. remembers that Underwood owes him some money and goes to collect it, but there gets drunk and passes out on the sofa. Underwood hides him, and Mrs. Jeffries, Sr. arrives and tells Underwood that she will have nothing to do with him. After she leaves, Underwood shoots and kills himself. This sound awakes Howard Jr., who is captured by the police and, under the hypnotic strain of the third degree, confesses to murder. When it is learned that a young woman had called on Underwood, the police try to pin the crime on Annie. She suspects that it was the other Mrs. Jeffries, and gets her to provide evidence to show that it was a suicide, but, to protect her fellow relative, Annie allows the police to believe that she had made the visit. After the trial, Howard, Sr. still wants to end his son's marriage on the sly, but a lawyer who is a family friend convinces Mrs. Jeffries, Sr. to confess to her husband, and the family conflicts are resolved.

Actors

Alice Joyce

(Annie Sands)Hedda Hopper

(Mrs. Howard Jeffries Sr)Gladden James

(Howard Jeffries Jr)Anders Randolf

(Howard Jeffries Sr)Herbert Evans

(Robert Underwood)L. Rogers Lytton

(Captain Clinton)
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