THE WICKED DARLING

A film by Tod Browning

Cast : Lon Chaney, Priscilla Dean, Wellington Playter, Gertrude Astor

1919 / comedy / original title : THE WICKED DARLING / 45’ / Black & White / status : completed / short film / International collections

Pickpocket Mary Stevens lives from small crimes surrounded by violent and envious men until the day that, being pursued by the police, she hides with a man that just left his wife. But her boyfriend won’t give up that easily.
A lost masterpiece, recently reconstructed from the only print in existence, discovered in Holland.