Below The Deadline Reel 1 (1929, silent)

Description: Notes from leader:
Reel 1 of multiple reels

"Gentleman bandit "Beau" Nash, who heads a gang of jewel thieves, maintains his headquarters in a ramshackle boardinghouse. When a police detective arrests a member of the gang named Mike, his sister Claire, known as "Lady Byron," vows revenge. The gang subsequently frames the detective’s friend, jewelry store clerk Donald Cornwall, for the robbing his employer. The detective frees Donald to seek evidence against the real criminals. Claire falls in love with Donald and also comes to his aid. Together, they prove that Nash’s gang is responsible for the robbery and their leader is killed."
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Subjects: Law Enforcement; Cities

Tags: crime; vice; gambling; boarding houses; friendship; frame-ups; cities; melodrama; telephones; cigars; gangs; robbery; silent film; intertitles

Film Sponsor:

Creator: Chesterfield Motion Picture Corp.

Credits: Director: J. P. McGowan
CAST:
Claire: Barbara Worth
"Beau" Nash: Frank Leigh
Donald: Walter Merrill
Taggart: J.P. McGowan
"Mother" Biblow: Virginia Sale
Jimmy: Arthur Rankin
Stella: Lou Gory
"Tubby": "Tiny" Ward
Sandy: Mike Donlin
Festenberg: Fred Walton
Johnstone: Bill Patten



Distributor:

Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Mogull Bros.

Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive

Production Date:

Release Date: 1929

Geographical Location:

Genre/Form: fiction, feature

Language:

Rights:

Film Format: 16mm film

Element: reduction print

Color: b&w, color

Color Process: tinted

Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: circle

Frame Rate: 18 fps

Length (feet): 333