The Stolen Play

The Stolen Play
Directed by	Harry Harvey
Written by	H.M. Horkheimer E.D. Horkheimer
Starring	Ruth Roland Ed Brady William Conklin
Production company	Balboa Amusement Producing Company
Release date	August 31, 1917 (1917-08-31) (USA)

The Stolen Play is a 1917 silent film directed by Harry Harvey from a script by the Horkheimer brothers for their Balboa Amusement Producing Company (aka Falcon Features).[1][2][3]

Plot

A blind playwright is engaged to his assistant, and the two are close to completion of a new play, which is so dark and morbid that they find themselves on the brink of breakdowns. A greedy agent who has admired the playwright's previous work will stop at nothing to secure the play for himself.[2]

Cast

• Ruth Roland as Sylvia Smalley
• Ed Brady as Leroux
• William Conklin as Charles Edmay
• Makoto Inokuchi as Togo

References

1. Jura, Jean-Jacques; II, Rodney Norman Bardin (2015-08-13). Balboa Films: A History and Filmography of the Silent Film Studio. McFarland. ISBN 978-1-4766-0901-0.
2. O’Dell, Cary (2017-06-12). "Now Playing at the Packard Campus (June 14-17, 2017) | Now See Hear!". blogs.loc.gov. Retrieved 2021-12-29.
3. Motography. 1917.