Film

The Shoes That Danced

1918 · 50m · Drama

Shopgirl Rhoda Regan is in love with the Harmony Lad, the leader of a New York street gang called the Hudson Dusters. After two gang murders are committed in the Pepper Box, a local cabaret, the Harmony Lad promises his worried sweetheart that he will abandon the gang for a singing career, and true to his word, he soon accepts a job on the Pepper Box stage. When Stumpy Darcy, the new leader of the Dusters, kills rival gang leader Wedge Barker, who had flirted with Stumpy's girlfriend, Mamie Conlon, the Harmony Lad flees to New Jersey to escape police interrogation.

Pauline Starke

Rhoda Regan

Wallace MacDonald

Harmony Lad

Richard Rosson

Stumpy Darcy

Anna Dodge

Mrs. Regan

Lydia Yeamans Titus

Mother Carey

Ann Forrest

Mamie Conlon

Ed Brady

Wedge Barker

William Dyer

Hogan

• Frank BorzageDirector
• Jack CunninghamWriter
• John A. MorosoStory

Release date

March 3, 1918

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

50m

Genres

Drama