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The Gray Brother
Also known as The Right Way and Within Prison Walls in the USA : [Making Good]
(1920) United States of America
B&W : Eight reels
Directed by Sidney Olcott

Cast: Joseph Marquis [the rich boy], Sidney D’Albrook [the poor boy], Helen Ferguson [the poor boy’s sweetheart], Elsie McLeod [the poor boy’s sister], [?] Ann Egleston or Annie Ecleston? [the poor boy’s mother], Helen Lindroth [the rich boy’s mother], Edwards Davis [the rich boy’s father], Vivienne Osborne [the rich boy’s sweetheart], Tammany Young [the smiler], Thomas Brooks [the new warden], Cecil Kern, Harold Thomas, Ralph Delmore, John B. Cooke

MacManus Film Corporation production; distributed [?] on State Rights basis? / Produced by Edward A. MacManus. Scenario by Thomas Mott Osborne and Basil Dickey, from a screen story by Thomas Mott Osborne. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Thomas Mott Osborne was a former warden of Sing Sing prison and the U.S. Naval Prison. The production of the film was completed circa December 1919 through January 1920. The film may have been distributed in the USA under the title Making Good in 1921. The film was rereleased in the USA as The Right Way by Producers’ Security Exchange in November 1921. The film was reedited and rereleased in the USA as Within Prison Walls in 1928.

Drama: Social.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 22 May 2012.

References: Bohn-Light p. 108 : Website-AFI.

 
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