The Danger Game

Madge Kennedy is the daughter of rich, bourgeoise parents who have spoiled her a bit. She imagines herself a literateur, and has published a novel at her father's expense. He takes great pleasure in reading out a review by one 'Gilpin', calling it unrealistic and saying if she wants to write about life, she had better try some. This enrages her so much she flees suburbia and makes for the Big, Bad City, where she is arrested and mistaken for a notorious felon. Fortunately Tom Moore shows up at the police station, lets them know they've pulled a bloomer, and asks their help in playing a trick on her. So he tells her he's a crook, needs her for a job, and "breaks her out", since all the staff pretends to be napping.

The outcome of this comedy will come as no surprise to anyone used to the ways of movies. Neither, do I expect, did it come as a surprise to the audience. One of the amusing bits in this is that the audience, like Moore, is way ahead of the heroine. We like her anyway; her parents' friends are dullards, and Miss Kennedy goes through the movie with a charming look of wide-eyed apprehension that you're looking forward to her understanding what's going on.

Director Harry Pollard shoots this movie in the standard techniques of the period, with lots of irised shots, but in cooperation with cinematographer William Fildew varies the compositions enough to keep this from becoming visually dull.