TY - SER
KW - Pittsburgh Police
KW - Pittsburgh Pirates
KW - Honus Wagner (1874-1955)
AU - Emilie Johnson
AB - <p><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif"><span style="display:none">&mdash;</span></span></span></span>A silent action film in which the children of Pittsburgh&rsquo;s police chief get innocently caught up in bank robberies, only to be vindicated by Pittsburgh Pirates legend Honus Wagner, who plays himself. In the climatic scene, Honus catches baseballs thrown from the roof of the City-County Building to prevent bystanders from being injured.</p>
C1 - 1920s
C2 - unpublished
C3 - Allegheny County; Pittsburgh; Downtown; City-County Building
C4 - Adventure; Mystery
LA - English
M3 - Screenplay
N2 - <p><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif"><span style="display:none">&mdash;</span></span></span></span>A silent action film in which the children of Pittsburgh&rsquo;s police chief get innocently caught up in bank robberies, only to be vindicated by Pittsburgh Pirates legend Honus Wagner, who plays himself. In the climatic scene, Honus catches baseballs thrown from the roof of the City-County Building to prevent bystanders from being injured.</p>
PY - 1922
RN - Emilie Johnson (1867-1941) wrote more than a dozen blue-collar scripts about workers—firefighters, police, railroad workers, letter carriers—for her son Emory's film company, which often hired non-actors, like Honus Wagner, to do the work being portrayed.
TI - In the Name of the Law
ER -