Going Crooked

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Going Crooked
Theater poster
Directed byGeorge Melford
Written byAlbert S. Le Vino
Keene Thompson
William Counselman (intertitles)[1]
Based on
Going Crooked: a Comedy in Three Acts, from a Tale of Hoffman's (Aaron's) (play)
by Winchell Smith
William Collier
Aaron Hoffman[2][3][4]
Produced by
Fox Film Corporation
Release date
  • December 12, 1926 (1926-12-12) (U.S.)
Running time
6 reels; 5,345 feet[4]
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)

Going Crooked is a 1926 American

Fox Film Corporation. It was directed by George Melford and stars Bessie Love
.

The film is preserved at the

George Eastman House, and the Bibliothèque nationale de France.[8][9]

Plot

Mordaunt (von Seyffertitz) and his gang use Marie (Love) as an unwitting accomplice in the theft of the acclaimed Rajah diamond. During the heist, a man is killed, and innocent Rogers (Fenton) is later sentenced to death for the murder.

Marie works with District Attorney Banning (Shaw) to get Mordaunt to confess, just in time to save Rogers from the electric chair. Marie and Shaw are married.[4][10][11]

Cast

Production

For authenticity, some scenes were filmed on Ferguson Alley in Chinatown, Los Angeles.[12]

Reception

The film received positive reviews, with Love and von Seyffertitz receiving high acclaim for their performances.[1][11]

References

  1. ^ a b "George Melford Has a Good One". The Film Spectator. Vol. 2, no. 12. February 19, 1927. p. 5.
  2. ISBN 978-3-11-095194-3
    .
  3. OCLC 5906478
    .
  4. ^
    OCLC 664500075
    .
  5. ^ "Mystery, Melodrama and an Extra Measure of Laughs Make 'Going Crooked' a Straight Winner". Fox Folks. Vol. 5, no. 10. October 1926. p. 19.
  6. ISBN 978-0-8108-2237-5
    .
  7. ^ "Going Crooked (1926)". American Film Institute.
  8. ^ "Going Crooked / George Melford [motion picture]". Library of Congress – Performing Arts Encyclopedia. Retrieved November 9, 2014.
  9. ^ "Going crooked (film)". BnF Catalogue général. Retrieved May 4, 2019.
  10. ^ "Going Crooked". The Film Daily. December 19, 1926. p. 10.
  11. ^ a b Sewell, C.S., ed. (December 18, 1926). "Through the Box-Office Window: Reviewers' Views on Feature Films". Moving Picture World. p. 525.
  12. ^ "Chinese Complications". Motion Picture News. October 2, 1926. p. 1256.

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