The False Road
About The False Road
Roger Moran comes out of Sing Sing after two years with Sapphire Mike Wilson's gang and tells a welcome banquet that he is done with crime. Betty Palmer will not leave the gang, so he goes. He gets work in Joshua Starbuck's bank in a small New England town. Mike sends Betty and a partner to rob it. Roger follows them to New York, pretends he has slid back, and gets the cash through Betty. She quits the gang and marries him.
Cast & crew
More about The False Road
Fred Niblo directed it. C. Gardner Sullivan wrote it. Thomas H. Ince produced it. George Barnes photographed it. Paramount released it on 18 April 1920. It runs 64 minutes. Enid Bennett plays Betty Palmer. Lloyd Hughes plays Roger Moran. Wade Boteler plays Mike Wilson. A copy is at the Library of Congress.
Themes
Look
George Barnes photographed the gang banquet and the New England bank.
Preservation
A copy is preserved at the Library of Congress.
Notes
- Lucille Young plays Frisco Minnie. Charles Smiley plays Joshua Starbuck. Edith Yorke plays Mother Starbuck. Gordon Mullen plays the crook chauffeur.
- Roger's nickname in the billing is Pickpocket.
- The welcome home is a gang banquet, and he makes the announcement there.
Scenes
- Roger tells the banquet he is going straight, and Betty refuses to come.
- Betty and a partner crack the bank where he now works.
- He poses as a backslider in New York and recovers the money.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (The False Road (1920).webm)
- Library of Congress
