
Society girl Priscilla Kane relishes excitement, escapes from her boarding school and then rejects the man her father has selected for her. While visiting a mending shop, Langdon Trevor, a journalist who has exposed Priscilla's father as a food profiteer, mistakes Priscilla for a seamstress and asks her to call on him.

Frederick J. Jackson, Raymond L. Schrock
United States

The first time we see Priscilla Kane she is scaling a stone arch that looks filched from a Gothic cathedral and dropped onto a New England campus: petticoat hitched, hairpins scattering like grapeshot, moonlight lacquered across the blade of her grin. In that single, breath-held shot, director Edward LeSaint anoints ...

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" The first time we see Priscilla Kane she is scaling a stone arch that looks filched from a Gothic cathedral and dropped onto a New England campus: petticoat hitched, hairpins scattering like grapeshot, moonlight lacquered across the blade of her grin. In that single, breath-held shot, director Edward LeSaint anoints his heroine not as ingénue but as insurgent, and the film never once lowers that banner. Caught in the Act—released in March 1917 by World Film and now rescued from nitro-oblivion..."


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