THROUGH THE DARK (1923)

With Colleen Moore top billed over Forrest Stanley

In the shadows of San Francisco Chinatown, a kindly elderly woman runs a home for Wayward “crooks.” Looking after them, as long as they stay straight, or at least she thinks they are. We meet “Glad Rags Kid” played by Eddie Philips a smooth but cowardly con man, “Traveler” a short superstitious petty crook (who has a great running sequence where after he steals an opal from a gentleman (bad luck) the cop chases him and “Boston Blackie” serving time in the hemp mill at San Quinton prison. Alas there is no footage of Colleen Moore, or Carmelita Gerrathy, in the surviving first reel of the film.