White Tiger (1923)

White Tiger: Directed by Tod Browning. With Priscilla Dean, Matt Moore, Raymond Griffith, Wallace Beery. Three crooks pull off a magnificent crime. As they’re forced to hide out together they slowly begin to distrust each other.

“Master of horror Todd Browning goes heavy metaphor in this listless story about a group of con artists out to bilk swells with a mechanical chess player that is actually manned.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eSylvia (Priscilla Dean) and Roy Donovan (Ray Griffith) are orphaned when their criminal dad Mike, ratted out by Hawkes (Wallace Beery) is gunned down by the cops. Separated the kids think the other is dead. Sylvia taken by Hawkes grows up to be a confidence person while Roy works a sideshow with the chess act. Reunited but still unaware they join forces to bilk high society and make off with a cache of jewelry. When plans go awry though they are forced to lay low in a cabin where things get tense between the principals.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe four leads, particularly Dean do what they can with the tedious script and its incestuous overtones but Browning fails to rev up the suspense. Instead it becomes one long disagreement between shifty characters with the director determined to hammer home an adage about the white tiger, resorting to employing a kitten at the finish to add cloying to the films list of drawbacks.”