The mission is a man.

Nan Carey ( Betty Compson ), a shoplifter, is caught by the police but acquitted through the influence of Lazare ( Lucien Littlefield ), a crooked lawyer, who places her with a gang of crooks. Posing ...

Only three reels survive of this 1924 British melodrama, which was written and edited by a 25-year-old Alfred Hitchcock. The scenario hinges on two themes that would become central to Hitchcock’s own ...