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The Wicked Darling

191959 minUnited States
Drama

Synopsis

Pickpocket Mary steals a pearl necklace and takes refuge in the home of its ruined owner, Kent Mortimer. As their lives cross again, she tries to leave crime behind and quietly help him. A jealous associate and the remaining pearls make her past difficult to escape.

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Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs
58:43
Subtitles
No subtitle track in this language

No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

Languages and subtitles

No subtitle track in this language

Wikimedia Commons · Tod Browning · Public domain

Cast

DirectorsTod Browning

Behind the scenes

The film began the collaboration between Tod Browning and Lon Chaney, who plays the criminal Stoop Connors. The surviving Dutch-intertitle print is complete but has visible decomposition in two important scenes.

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Work catalogued as public domain in the United States.

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Availability checked on September 15, 2026.

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  • Priscilla Dean — This image is available from the United States Library of Congress 's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID ggbain.35305 . This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing . · Public domain
  • Lon Chaney — Unknown author · Public domain

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