form y separately published work icon One Million in Jewels single work   film/TV   crime  
Issue Details: First known date: 1923... 1923 One Million in Jewels
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'Burke, of the Secret Service, is assigned the task of preventing a plot to smuggle into the country important jewels by way of Havana. His adventures are many and his risks are great, especially as surprise after surprise is sprung on him, and through it all runs an intelligent, plausible love story.'

Source:

'Paramount Theatre', Townsville Daily Bulletin, 20 August 1924, p.3.

Notes

  • McGowan directed a melodrama called A Million in Jewels in 1914, but the two films seem unrelated: while the 1923 film is a crime melodrama, the 1914 film (also known as The Rajah's Jewels) was an Orientalist melodrama, with characters such as 'Princess Oonah' and 'Madj - the Old Family Retainer'.

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J. P. McGowan
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