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Mary Turner, a shop clerk, is sent to prison for three years for a theft she did not commit. Out, she uses the heart-balm racket to get back at the people who put her there. Joan Crawford plays Mary.
Cast & crew
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Sam Wood directed and produced. Lucien Hubbard and Charles MacArthur adapted Bayard Veiller's 1912 play Within the Law. This is the fourth film version of that play. Charles Rosher photographed it. Hugh Wynn edited. Milton Ager is the credited composer. It runs 80 minutes. Robert Armstrong, Douglass Montgomery (billed in some sources as Kent Douglass), and Marie Prevost are in the cast.
Themes
Look
Charles Rosher photographed Crawford's prison term and the scheme that follows.
Music
Milton Ager is the credited composer.
Preservation
A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- The scam she runs after prison is called the heart-balm racket.
- Polly Moran, John Miljan, and Purnell Pratt are on the wider cast lists.
- A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.
Scenes
- Mary comes out of the three-year sentence and starts the racket aimed at the man who convicted her.
Influenced by
- Bayard Veiller's Within the Law
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Paid)
