Brooding Eyes

Brooding Eyes is a 1926 American silent crime film directed by Edward LeSaint and starring Lionel Barrymore, Ruth Clifford, and Robert Ellis.^[1]

Brooding Eyes
Directed by	Edward LeSaint
Written by	Pierre Gendron Mary Alice Scully
Based on	The Man with the Brooding Eyes by John Goodwin (pen name of Sidney Floyd Gowing)
Starring	Lionel Barrymore Ruth Clifford Robert Ellis
Production company	Banner Productions
Distributed by	Henry Ginsberg Distributing Company
Release date	March 15, 1926 (1926-03-15)
Running time	60 min.
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

Plot

As described in a film magazine review,^[2] Slim Jim Carey, a titled nobleman who is also the leader of a band of crooks, is reported dead and leaves proof of his daughter’s claim to the estate with his henchmen. Not trusting them, he spies on them from behind his own portrait. With the aid of the man who loves his daughter, he frustrates their plots to get the money in the estate, and is caught by the police just as he is shot. Dying, he reveals his identity to the young man, but not to his daughter.

Cast

• Lionel Barrymore as Slim Jim Carey
• Ruth Clifford as Joan Ayre
• Robert Ellis as Phillip Mott
• Montagu Love as Pat Callaghan
• William V. Mong as Slaney
• Lucien Littlefield as Bell
• John Miljan as Drummond
• Dot Farley as Marie De Costa
• Alma Bennett as Agnes De Costa