The Stealers


The Stealers is a 1920 American silent drama film directed by Christy Cabanne.

Plot

As described in a film magazine, Rev. Robert Martin is an ex-minister who has lost his faith because of his wife's faithlessness, and taken up a life of crime as head of a band of pickpockets masquerading as religious workers who ply their trade in the wake of a traveling carnival company. He tries to keep the true nature of his work secret from his daughter Julie, but she learns the truth while traveling with his band for a week. One by one the members of the band are regenerated through a renewal of their faith. Stephen Gregory, the last of the band to find solace in faith, tries upon a wager to induce his friend Mary Forrest to leave the man she married while he is under arrest and to go with him.

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