Are Crooks Dishonest?
About Are Crooks Dishonest?
After a séance at the Mystic Temple, Miss Goulash and her father, who poses as a professor, walk in the park. Harold and Snub are there selling fake jewelry. They take the professor and other marks. When they try the same trick on Miss Goulash she turns it around, gets their money, and sets the police on them. They hide in the temple and the contest with her starts again.
Cast & crew
More about Are Crooks Dishonest?
Gilbert Pratt directed. Hal Roach produced it. Wikidata gives 13 minutes. Harold Lloyd and Snub Pollard play the con men. Bebe Daniels is billed with them. William Blaisdell and Helen Gilmore are on the cast list. Prints are at the Museum of Modern Art and the Filmoteca Española. A copy is on the Internet Archive as Are_Crooks_Dishonest.
Themes
Preservation
Prints are at the Museum of Modern Art and the Filmoteca Española.
Notes
- The jewelry game works on the professor and fails on his daughter.
- The second round is inside the Mystic Temple, where she had just held a séance.
- Sammy Brooks, Gus Leonard, and Charles Stevenson are billed.
- MoMA and the Filmoteca Española both hold prints.
Scenes
- They sell the professor the fake jewelry.
- She turns the trick and they run into the temple.
Also available
- Internet Archive (Are_Crooks_Dishonest)
