Jim the Penman (1921)
An Unforgettable Picture of a Band of Wildcatters Whose sensational Deals in high Finance Startle the World.
A bank clerk forges a check to help his girlfriend's father. He's found out, but instead of being arrested he becomes a member of a gang of forgers.
- Date of release
- 1921-04-04
- TMDB
- 8.0 / 10 (1)
- Runtime
- 1h 0m
- Genres
- Crime, Drama
- Director
- Kenneth S. Webb
Casting
- Lionel Barrymore — James Ralston
- Doris Rankin — Nina Bronson
- Anders Randolf — Baron Hartfeld
- Arthur Rankin — Lord Drelincourt
- Douglas MacPherson — Louis Percival
- Gladys Leslie — Agnes Ralston
- Charles Coghlan — Captain Redwood
- James Laffey — E.J. Smith
- Ned Burton — Enoch Bronson
Interesting facts
Jim the Penman is a 1921 American silent crime drama film produced by Whitman Bennett and distributed through Associated First National, later just First National Pictures. It was based on Charles Lawrence Young's circa-1886 play Jim the Penman, about a forger in Victorian Britain. The film stars Lionel Barrymore and was directed by Kenneth Webb, the duo having worked on The Great Adventure previously. Jim the Penman is preserved, though incomplete, at the Library of Congress.
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