''The Thief'' is a 1914 American silent
drama film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular ...
directed by
Edgar Lewis
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and starring Richard Buhler, Edgar L. Davenport, George De Carlton, and
Dorothy Donnelly
Dorothy Agnes Donnelly (January 28, 1876 - January 3, 1928) was an actress, playwright, librettist, producer, and director. After a decade-long acting career that included several notable roles on Broadway, she turned to writing plays, musicals ...
. It is based on the 1907 play ''The Thief'' by
Henri Bernstein
Henri-Léon-Gustave-Charles Bernstein (20 June 1876 – 27 November 1953) was a French playwright associated with Boulevard theatre.
Biography
Bernstein was born in Paris. His earliest plays, including ''La Rafale'' (1905), ''Le Voleur'' (1907) ...
. The film was released by
Box Office Attractions Company on November 19, 1914.
The film was remade as a short film in 1920.
Plot
Cast
* Richard Buhler as Richard Voysin
* Edgar L. Davenport as Mr. Legardes
* George De Carlton as Detective
*
Dorothy Donnelly
Dorothy Agnes Donnelly (January 28, 1876 - January 3, 1928) was an actress, playwright, librettist, producer, and director. After a decade-long acting career that included several notable roles on Broadway, she turned to writing plays, musicals ...
as Marie Landau
*
Iva Shepard
Iva Shepard (April 23, 1886, Cincinnati, Ohio – January 26, 1973, Arcadia, California) was an American silent film actress. Her most notable film roles were in ''The Romance of an Actor'' (1914)''Pictorial History of the Silent Screen'', p. ...
as Mrs. Legardes
* Harry Spingler as Fernand Legardes
Preservation
The film is now considered
lost.
American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: ''The Thief''
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See also
* List of lost films
For this list of lost films, a lost film is defined as one of which no part of a print is known to have survived. For films in which any portion of the footage remains (including trailers), see List of incomplete or partially lost films.
Reas ...
* 1937 Fox vault fire
A major fire occurred in a 20th Century-Fox film-storage facility in Little Ferry, New Jersey, United States on July 9, 1937. Flammable nitrate film had previously contributed to several fires in film-industry laboratories, studios and vaults ...
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1914 drama films
Fox Film films
Silent American drama films
1914 films
American silent feature films
American black-and-white films
Lost American drama films
American films based on plays
1914 lost films
Films directed by Edgar Lewis
1910s American films
1910s English-language films
English-language drama films
Lost silent American films
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