Going Straight is a 1916 American silent crime drama film directed by C.M. Franklin and S.A. Franklin. The film stars Norma Talmadge and is one of the few films featuring her that still exists.
Plot
Well-to-do couple John and Grace Remington used to be leaders of the Higgins criminal gang, but have gone straight and are now respectable citizens. Their comfortable lives are disrupted when Dan Briggs, a petty street thief and member of their old gang, finds them. Briggs blackmails them by threatening to expose their past, wanting to make use of John Remington’s former expertise as a safe cracker.
Remington reluctantly joins Briggs’ criminal enterprise, certain that it would be the one and only time that he returns to crime. However, the home they break into belongs to a friend of Grace’s, and she and the Remington children are sleeping overnight there. The heist goes awry, and Briggs vows revenge on Remington.
Cast
Norma Talmadge – Grace Remington
Ralph Lewis – John Remington
Ninon Fovieri – The Remington's Child, son
Francis Carpenter – The Remington's Child, son
Fern Collier – The Remington's Child, daughter
Ruth Handforth – Maid
Eugene Pallette – Dan Briggs
Georgie Stone – Jimmy (Dan's urchin sidekick) Kate Toncray – Mrs. Van Dyke 'Baby' Carmen De Rue – Mrs. Van Dyke's Child Violet Radcliffe – Mrs. Van Dyke's Child