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'The Stealers' is a 1920 American silent drama film directed by Christy Cabanne.Jacobs & Braum p.59

Plot



As described in a film magazine, 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.


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