Jim the Penman (1921)

Directed by

Kenneth Webb

Genre

drama film, silent film, crime film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h

Rated

NR

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A forger in Victorian Britain carries out his schemes. The film follows his deceptions and the consequences that unfold around him.

tensehistoricalstagedgrittyslow-burnatmosphericgrimmelodramatic

What happens

Jim the Penman is a 1921 American silent crime drama film produced by Whitman Bennett and distributed through Associated First National, later just First National Pictures. It was based on Charles Lawrence Young's circa-1886 play Jim the Penman, about a forger in Victorian Britain (itself probably adapted from Felix Philippi's 1884 play Der Advokat). The film stars Lionel Barrymore and was directed by Kenneth Webb, the duo having worked on The Great Adventure previously. Jim the Penman is preserved, though incomplete (reel 5 missing), at the Library of Congress. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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