The Jailbird
Cast & Crew
Lloyd Ingraham
Douglas Maclean
Doris May
Lew Morrison
William Courtright
Wilbur Higby
Film Details
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Synopsis
Shakespeare Clancy is a jailbird who walks out with a crowd of visitors about the time "Skeeter" Burns, the prison printer, is discharged. When Clancy is notified that a legacy awaits him in Dodson, the pair depart for the small Western town. Discovering that the bequest consists of a failing county newspaper and a plot of barren land, they decide to capitalize upon the land by selling the townspeople shares in a bogus oil well. Meanwhile, Clancy falls in love with Alice Whitney, the society editor of the paper. After Alice and her maiden aunt insist upon investing their savings in the well, Clancy and Skeeter decide that the time has come to leave town. They are about to make their getaway when they are stopped by a crowd of cheering citizens, ecstatic because the well has struck oil. Concluding that his destiny is to be an honest man, Clancy returns to jail to finish serving his term. Slipping into the crowd of visitors, he dons his prison clothes and resumes work as though nothing had happened.
Director
Lloyd Ingraham
Cast
Douglas Maclean
Doris May
Lew Morrison
William Courtright
Wilbur Higby
Otto Hoffman
Monty Collins
Bert Woodruff
Edith Yorke
Joe Hazelton
Crew
Leo H. Braun
Bert Cann
W. L. Heywood
Thomas H. Ince
Thomas H. Ince
Julien Josephson
Julien Josephson
Charles H. Kyson
Harvey C. Leavitt
William H. Marker
Carl Schneider
F. J. Van Halle
Film Details
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Notes
The working title of this film was Shakespeare Clancy. The film was also called The Jail Bird.
