The Black Bag

For the 2025 film, see Black Bag. For other uses, see Black Bag (disambiguation).

The Black Bag is a lost^[1] 1922 American silent mystery film directed by Stuart Paton and starring Herbert Rawlinson. It was produced and distributed by the Universal Film Manufacturing Company.^[2][3]

The Black Bag
Still with Virginia Valli and Herbert Rawlinson
Directed by	Stuart Paton
Written by	George Hively Bernard H. Hyman
Based on	The Black Bag by Louis Joseph Vance
Produced by	Carl Laemmle
Starring	Herbert Rawlinson
Cinematography	Virgil Miller Irving B. Ruby
Distributed by	Universal Film Manufacturing Company
Release date	June 5, 1922 (1922-06-05)
Running time	5 reels
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

Plot

As described in a film magazine,^[4] wealthy Dorothy Calender (Valli) withdraws a string of pearls from her uncle's keeping to assist her brother with a debt. A detective is following her about and with the aid of others almost succeeds in getting his hands on the pearls. Billy Kirkwood (Rawlinson), who thinks Dorothy is a thief but wants to save her from her folly, secures the pearls from the escaping crooks and restores them to the young woman. Later it develops that the detective is dishonest and the whole gang is locked up, while Dorothy declares her love for the man who saved her property.

Cast

• Herbert Rawlinson as Billy Kirkwood
• Virginia Valli as Dorothy Calender
• Bert Roach as Mulready
• Clara Beyers as Mrs. Hallam
• Charles King as Freddie Hallam
• Herbert Fortier as Samuel Brentwick
• Lew Short as Burgoyne
• John B. O'Brien as Martin