The Disreputable Mr. Raegen (1911) watch online HD

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 ... See full summary

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 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, ...