Straight Is the Way is a surviving 1921 American silent comedy film directed by Robert G. Vignola, written by Frances Marion and Ethel Watts Mumford, and starring Matt Moore, Mabel Bert, Gladys Leslie, George Parsons, Henry Sedley, Van Dyke Brooke, and Emily Fitzroy. It was released on March 6, 1921, by Paramount Pictures.
The film depicts an aunt and niece in a treasure hunting expedition, in which their only guide are the supposed spirits of a Ouija board.
Plot An old woman and her niece, an orphan, consult a ouija board to locate a hidden treasure in order to save their mortgaged home.
Cast Matt Moore as 'Cat' Carter Mabel Bert as Aunt Mehitabel Gladys Leslie as Dorcas George Parsons as 'Loot' Follett Henry Sedley as Jonathan Squoggs Van Dyke Brooke as Const. Whipple Emily Fitzroy as Mrs. Crabtree Peggy Parr as Bobby
Preservation status A copy of Straight Is the Way survives in the Library of Congress collection.Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and the United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress, p. 175 c.1978 by the American Film InstituteThe Library of Congress/FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Straight is the Way Edward Lorusso produced a DVD of the film in 2021 with a music score by David Drazin.
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