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Alias Mary Brown
Director: H. D'Elba (Dir)
Release Date:   4 Aug 1918
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Cast: Pauline Starke  (Betty)
  Casson Ferguson  (Dick Browning, also known as Mary Brown)
  Arthur N. Millett  (Hewlett)
 

Summary: Following his father's sudden death, Dick Browning learns that three financiers defrauded Mr. Browning of his money. Because his mother is destitute, Dick fences the only remaining jewel in his father's estate, but when she dies, he joins a gang of crooks, vowing revenge on the financiers. Dressed in feminine attire and known as Mary Brown, Dick robs two of the men. In the meantime, he has fallen in love with Betty, a woman who was lured to the crooks' lair by one of his cronies. Having decided to marry Betty and go straight, Dick plans his last job, the robbery of her uncle. Although his jealous associate informs the police of Dick's plan, the gang helps "Mary" to escape. The doublecrosser breaks into the uncle's home himself and, surprised by his victim, kills him, only to be arrested by the police moments later. Dick and Betty, recipients of the deceased's fortune, settle on a farm. 

Distribution Company: Triangle Distributing Corp.
Production Company: Triangle Film Corp.
Director: H. D'Elba (Dir)
Writer: E. Magnus Ingleton (Scen)

Subject Major: Female impersonation
  Capitalists and financiers
  Fraud
  Inheritance
  Revenge
  Robbery
 
Subject Minor: Betrayal
  Criminals--Rehabilitation
  Escapes
  Farm life
  Murder
  Uncles

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