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Crooked Streets (1920)

Crooked Streets poster
Directed by
Paul Powell
Genre
drama film, silent film
Country
United States
Runtime
50 min
Rated
NR
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young woman gets drawn into a web of international espionage. She must navigate danger and deception to protect secrets from enemy agents.

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What happens

Crooked Streets is a 1920 American silent drama spy film directed by Paul Powell and produced by Famous Players–Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It is one of star Ethel Clayton's rare surviving silent films with a copy at the Library of Congress. The film is based on a short story, "Dinner at Eight", by Samuel Merwin. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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