You Can't Get Away with It
1923 film
- December 9, 1923 (1923-12-09)
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You Can't Get Away with It is a 1923 American silent romantic drama film directed by Rowland V. Lee and starring Percy Marmont, Malcolm McGregor, and Betty Bouton.[1]
Plot
As described in a film magazine review,[2] Jill, Jane, and May Mackie are left penniless when their father dies. They obtain employment but department store work breaks down Jill's health. Charles Hemingway, cursed with a selfish, unsympathetic wife, grows fond of Jill and she goes to live with him. Later, he dies and she has an opportunity to marry Henry Adams. Facing exposure, she confesses her past. He discards her and she returns to work as a store clerk, convinced that there is no escape from the penalties of doing wrong.
Cast
- Percy Marmont as Charles Hemingway
- Malcolm McGregor as Henry Adams
- Betty Bouton as Jill Mackie
- Barbara Tennant as Jane Mackie
- Grace Morse as May Mackie
- Clarissa Selwynne as Mrs. Hemingway
- Charles Cruz as Charles Hemingway Jr.
Preservation
With no prints of You Can't Get Away with It located in any film archives,[3] it is a lost film.
References
- ^ Solomon p. 286
- ^ Pardy, George T. (December 15, 1923). "Feature Previews: You Can't Get Away with It". Exhibitors Trade Review. 15 (3). New York: Exhibitors Review Publishing Corporation: 25. Retrieved April 27, 2022.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. - ^ Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: You Can't Get Away with It
Bibliography
- Solomon, Aubrey. The Fox Film Corporation, 1915-1935: A History and Filmography. McFarland, 2011.
External links
- You Can't Get Away with It at IMDb
- Synopsis at AllMovie
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Films directed by Rowland V. Lee
- A Thousand to One (1920)
- Blind Hearts (1921)
- The Sea Lion (1921)
- Cupid's Brand (1921)
- The Cup of Life (1921)
- The Men of Zanzibar (1922)
- His Back Against the Wall (1922)
- Mixed Faces (1922)
- Shirley of the Circus (1922)
- Alice Adams (1923)
- Gentle Julia (1923)
- Desire (1923)
- You Can't Get Away with It (1923)
- In Love with Love (1924)
- The Man Without a Country (1925)
- Havoc (1925)
- The Outsider (1926)
- The Silver Treasure (1926)
- Barbed Wire (1927)
- The Whirlwind of Youth (1927)
- The Secret Hour (1928)
- Doomsday (1928)
- Three Sinners (1928)
- Loves of an Actress (1928)
- The First Kiss (1928)
- The Wolf of Wall Street (1929)
- A Dangerous Woman (1929)
- Ladies Love Brutes (1930)
- The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu (1930)
- Derelict (1930)
- A Man from Wyoming (1930)
- Paramount on Parade (1930)
- The Ruling Voice (1931)
- The Guilty Generation (1931)
- That Night in London (1932)
- Zoo in Budapest (1933)
- I Am Suzanne (1933)
- The Count of Monte Cristo (1934)
- Gambling (1934)
- Cardinal Richelieu (1935)
- The Three Musketeers (1935)
- One Rainy Afternoon (1936)
- Love from a Stranger (1937)
- The Toast of New York (1937)
- Service de Luxe (1938)
- Mother Carey's Chickens (1938)
- Son of Frankenstein (1939)
- Tower of London (1939)
- The Sun Never Sets (1939)
- The Son of Monte Cristo (1940)
- Powder Town (1942)
- The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1944)
- Captain Kidd (1945)
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