The Stolen Play Explained

Director:	Harry Harvey
Starring:	Ruth Roland Ed Brady William Conklin
Studio:	Balboa Amusement Producing Company

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.

Cast

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

Notes and References

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