Let Women Alone

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Let Women Alone

Directed by	Paul Powell
Written by	Viola Brothers Shore Frank E. Woods
Produced by	Frank E. Woods
Starring	Pat O'Malley Wanda Hawley Wallace Beery
Cinematography	Joseph Walker
Production company	Peninsula Studios
Distributed by	Producers Distributing Corporation
Release date	January 4, 1925 (1925-01-04)
Running time	60 minutes
Country	United States
Languages	Silent English intertitles

Let Women Alone is a 1925 American silent comedy film directed by Paul Powell and starring Pat O'Malley, Wanda Hawley and Wallace Beery.^[1]

Plot

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After her husband is reportedly drowned at sea, his wife supports herself and their child by setting up a small interior decorating shop. She falls in love with Tom Benham, an insurance agent but her uncle a Commodore opposes the match and tries to thwart her business. Things take a dramatic shift when her husband reappears alive and involved with a racket smuggling Chinese illegal immigrants into America. He kidnaps her and the commodore and Tom give chase and rescue her.

Cast

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Pat O'Malley as Tom Benham
Wanda Hawley as Beth Wylie
Wallace Beery as Cap Bullwinkle
Ethel Wales as Ma Benham
J. Farrell MacDonald as Commodore John Gordon
Harris Gordon as Jim Wylie
Betty Jane Snowdon as Jean Wylie
Lee Willard as Alec Morrison
Marjorie Morton as Isabel Morrison

References

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^ Munden p.430

Bibliography

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Connelly, Robert B. The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36, Volume 40, Issue 2. December Press, 1998.
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

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Let Women Alone at IMDb

Films directed by Paul Powell

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The Wood Nymph (1916)
Acquitted (1916)
Hell-to-Pay Austin (1916)
Betsy's Burglar (1917)
Cheerful Givers (1917)
The Sawdust Ring (1917)
A Girl of the Timber Claims (1917)
All Night (1918)
A Society Sensation (1918)
Common Property (1919)
The Man in the Moonlight (1919)
Pollyanna (1920)
Sweet Lavender (1920)
Crooked Streets (1920)
Eyes of the Heart (1920)
Dangerous Lies (1921)
The Mystery Road (1921)
Borderland (1922)
The Crimson Challenge (1922)
The Ordeal (1922)
For the Defense (1922)
The Cradle (1922)
A Daughter of Luxury (1922)
The Fog (1923)
Racing Hearts (1923)
Her Market Value (1925)
The Awful Truth (1925)
Let Women Alone (1925)
North Star (1925)
The Prince of Pilsen (1926)
Jewels of Desire (1927)

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