The Curious Conduct of Judge Legarde
Cast & Crew
Will Davis
Lionel Barrymore
Edna Pendleton
William H. Tooker
Roy Applegate
T. W. M. Draper
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Synopsis
Judge Randolph Legarde refuses to accept a plea that a woman's dual personality, one good the other evil, caused her to commit a crime. Later, however, when Legarde has an accident to his head, it causes him to take on an invidious personality at night and become the leader of a gang of thieves, while remaining a sober judge in the daylight. His fiancée, Agnes Caverly, and her father, a lawyer, notice his disturbance at times, but they attribute it to overwork. Legarde becomes infatuated with Amelia Garside, who accuses him of being the judge who earlier sentenced her. When he vehemently denies this, she falls in love with him. After "The Quill," a stool pigeon, tells the police of Legarde's plan to rob his own home, Legarde's gang is captured. Agnes' father, sensing the truth about Legarde, hires a brain specialist who cures him. Legarde then marries Agnes, leaving Amelia, whose innocence has been established, brokenhearted.
Director
Will Davis
Cast
Lionel Barrymore
Edna Pendleton
William H. Tooker
Roy Applegate
T. W. M. Draper
August Balfour
Charles Graham
Arthur Morrison
Ed Roseman
Thomas O'keefe
Betty Young
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Notes
The play was based on a German work by Paul Lindau, a playwright, novelist and essayist. All of the exteriors for this film were shot indoors in the studio.
