You Can't Get Away with It


1923

Film Details

Release Date
Jan 1923
Premiere Information
release: 18 Nov or 9 Dec 1923
Production Company
Fox Film Corp.
Country
United States
Screenplay Information
Based on the short story "You Can't Get Away With It," by Gouverneur Morris in Incandescent Lily, and Other Stories (New York, 1914).

Synopsis

Poverty forces Jill Mackie to work in a department store, and there she falls in love with its owner, Charles Hemingway. They form an illicit alliance when Mrs. Hemingway refuses to grant Charles a divorce. Eventually, Hemingway becomes ill and dies, leaving Jill a sum of money. She leaves the country, falls in love with a young man to whom she confides her past, but breaks with him when he suggests they make a similar arrangement.

Film Details

Release Date
Jan 1923
Premiere Information
release: 18 Nov or 9 Dec 1923
Production Company
Fox Film Corp.
Country
United States
Screenplay Information
Based on the short story "You Can't Get Away With It," by Gouverneur Morris in Incandescent Lily, and Other Stories (New York, 1914).

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