13 Washington Square (1928) (1928)

Old-money Mrs. de Peyster (Alice Joyce) was fuming that her defiant son Jack (George J. Lewis) was planning to elope with a humble grocer's daughter (Helen Foster). As she storms home to break it up, the kids ask an apparently kindly deacon (Jean Hersholt) to make it legal-trouble is, the "clergyman" is a cat burglar who's been casing the de Peyster house! Agreeable farce from the Leroy Scott novel also stars ZaSu Pitts, Helen Jerome Eddy. 60 min. Standard; Soundtrack: music score; audio commentary. Silent with music score.