Brooding Eyes

Based onThe Man with the Brooding Eyes
by John Goodwin (pen name of Sidney Floyd Gowing)StarringDistributed byHenry Ginsberg Distributing Company60 min.CountryUnited StatesLanguageSilent (English intertitles)

Brooding Eyes is a 1926 American silent crime film directed by Edward LeSaint and starring Lionel Barrymore, Ruth Clifford, and Robert Ellis.^[1]

Plot

As described in a film magazine review,^[2] Slim Jim Carey, a titled nobleman who is also the leader of a band of crooks, is reported dead and leaves proof of his daughter’s claim to the estate with his henchmen. Not trusting them, he spies on them from behind his own portrait. With the aid of the man who loves his daughter, he frustrates their plots to get the money in the estate, and is caught by the police just as he is shot. Dying, he reveals his identity to the young man, but not to his daughter.

Cast

• Lionel Barrymore as Slim Jim Carey
• Ruth Clifford as Joan Ayre
• Robert Ellis as Phillip Mott
• Montagu Love as Pat Callaghan
• William V. Mong as Slaney
• Lucien Littlefield as Bell
• John Miljan as Drummond
• Dot Farley as Marie De Costa
• Alma Bennett as Agnes De Costa

References

Bibliography

• Munden, Kenneth White. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press, 1997.

External links

• Brooding Eyes at IMDb
• Synopsis at AllMovie