The Woman with Four Faces

The Woman with Four Faces

1923 · 60 min · ★ 8.0 · Drama

Elizabeth West, a young woman who is both a thief and a con artist and allied with a gang of crooks, is freed when a jury does not convict her on a larceny charge. She determines to aid district attorney Richard Templar to round up a gang of narcotic traffickers. Disguised as an old woman, she secures the privilege of having an old confederate, who is in solitary confinement, temporarily released to aid in the plan. He turns against her, however, and she is forced to work alone with the district attorney. They succeed in their plan and then confess their love for each other. A lost film.

Directed by Herbert Brenon · Written by George James Hopkins

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Betty Compson Elizabeth West
Richard Dix Richard Templar
George Fawcett Judge Westcott
Theodore von Eltz Jim Hartigan
Joseph Kilgour Judson Osgood
Jim Farley Morton
Guy Oliver Warden Cassidy
Charles A. Stevenson Ralph Dobson
Gladden James The Boy
Eulalie Jensen The Mother

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