The Jailbird
Overview
Shakespeare Clancy is a jailbird who walks out with a crowd of visitors about the time "Skeeter" Burns, the prison printer, is discharged. Learning that a legacy awaits them in Dodson, the pair depart for the small Western town. Discovering that the bequest consists of a failing county newspaper and a plot of barren land, they hatch a plan to fleece the townspeople by selling shares in a bogus oil well. Problems arise when Clancy falls in love with society editor Alice Whitney. Clancy is conflicted but then they do strike oil! Concluding that his destiny is to be an honest man, Clancy returns to jail to finish serving his term. Slipping into the crowd of visitors, he dons his prison clothes and resumes work as though nothing had happened.
Release date
10/10/1920
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Douglas MacLean
Shakespeare Clancy
Doris May
Alice Whitney
Louis Morrison
'Skeeter' Burns (as Lew Morrison)
William Courtright
Noah Gibbs
Otto Hoffman
Elkemah Pardee
Monte Collins Sr.
Asa Grider (as Monty Collins)
Bert Woodruff
Grandpa Binney
Joseph Hazelton
Alva Finch (as Joe Hazelton)
Wilbur Higby
Joel Harvey
Edith Murgatroyd
Mrs. Whitney (as Edith Yorke)
Original Soundtrack
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The Witching Hour
The Wonderful Thing
Say It with Diamonds
Pillars of Society
The Cigarette Girl
Happiness of Three Women
Pasquale
Wandering Footsteps
Destiny: or, the Soul of a Woman
I Did It, Mamma
Silk Hosiery
The Keys of the Righteous
The Yankee Girl
The Trap
Reno
He Fell in Love with His Wife
A Knight of the Road
In the Watches of the Night
The Thief and the Girl
The Danger Signal