The Stealers is a 1920 American silent drama film directed by Christy Cabanne.Jacobs & Braum p.59
Plot As described in a film magazine, Rev. Robert Martin (Tooker) 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 (Shearer), 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 (Miller), the last of the band to find solace in faith, tries upon a wager to induce his friend Mary Forrest (Dwyer) to leave the man she married while he is under arrest and to go with him.
Cast William H. Tooker as Rev. Robert Martin Robert Kenyon as Robert Martin (while a young man) Myrtle Morse as Mrs. Martin Norma Shearer as Julie Martin Ruth Dwyer as Mary Forrest Eugene Borden as Sam Gregory Jack Crosby as Raymond Pritchard Matthew Betz as Bert Robinson John B. O'Brien as Man of Dawn Downing Clarke as Major Wellington Walter Miller as Stephen Gregory
References
Bibliography Jack Jacobs and Myron Braum. The Films of Norma Shearer. A. S. Barnes, 1976.
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