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  • The Disreputable Mr. Raegen (1911)
  • Short | Drama, Short
The Disreputable Mr. Raegen (1911)
Short | Drama, Short
The first scene shows his entrance into a saloon and that the police officials know the man and his unenviable reputation. Inside the saloon a young collector carelessly displays a roll of bills in his wallet, and in paying his bill for ...See moreThe first scene shows his entrance into a saloon and that the police officials know the man and his unenviable reputation. Inside the saloon a young collector carelessly displays a roll of bills in his wallet, and in paying his bill for drinks, slips the wallet into the back pocket of his trousers. Another habitué of the saloon, a man by the name of Smith, feigning to drop his hat, deftly picks the pocket of the young collector and slips the empty wallet, after removing the bills, into Raegen's pocket. Of course the alarm is spread, and in a tremendously exciting scene, in which Smith puts out the lights, the place is raided by the police, Smith has escaped. We see Smith return to his flat in a tumble-down tenement and display the money which he has brought to his old mother and to the little child of the story. The child is hungry and cries for food. Suddenly they hear a noise outside; it is the police! Stopping the child's cries, they put her into a closet, and closing the door, make their escape by way of the fire escape. The police break in the door, make a hurried search, and finding no one there, disappear. Shortly afterwards we see Raegen darting around the corner, hotly pursued by other police, and entering this same building. Climbing upstairs rapidly, he finds the door open and slips into Smith's apartment, closing the door after him. Hearing a noise in the closet, he raises a chair to defend himself, when the door opens and the tiny little waif appears. She is quite unconscious of any danger in the supposed bad man and makes friends with him at once, asking him to give her food. Raegen makes a search of the premises, but fails to find anything to give her. He decides to forage outside, but on looking out of the window on the front, finds police on guard on the sidewalk below watching the building. The same state of affairs holds true at the back of the tenement. And then the little child suddenly collapses in a dead faint upon the floor from hunger. This is too much for the heart of Raegen, and picking her up in his arms he goes downstairs, presents himself to the police and invites them to take him to the station, where something can be had for the child to eat. Of course in the meantime Smith has been arrested with the money on his person and Raegen's innocence is proven, and having turned over a new leaf, we see him in the last scene become the foster father of the little waif, who had been abandoned by her grandmother when she fell into the hand of the law. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Richard Harding Davis (story)
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Updated Mar 24, 1911
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Mar 24, 1911 (United States)

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