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The Custard Cup (1923)
Directed by Herbert Brenon
Overview
Mrs. Penfield, better known as Penzie, is one of the inhabitants of a tenement neighborhood known as “the Custard Cup” because of its oval shape. Penzie is a widow who lost both her husband and son in the influenza epidemic of 1918 and 1919. She has found fulfillment by taking in three orphans. One of the Custard Cup’s other residents is a counterfeiter, and when the police are too hot on his trail, he leaves a package with Penzie and sets a boat aflame when he tries to destroy some phony bills. When the gang is rounded up, Penzie—who has been looking for one of her adopted children—is found at the hideout and arrested.
Rated NR | Length 70 minutes
Actors
Ben Lyon | Henry Sedley | Mary Carr | Myrta Bonillas | Fred Esmelton | Peggy Shaw | Miriam Battista | Jerry Devine | Louis Hendricks | Edward Boring | Emily Lorraine | Lisle Leigh | Richard Collins | Ernest McKay | Nick Hollen