title: The Life Line
text: # The Life Line
  
  The Life Line is a 1919 American silent drama film directed by Maurice Tourneur and starring Jack Holt, Wallace Beery and Lew Cody. The picture was based on the play The Romany Rye by the British playwright George R. Sims. The film is set amongst the criminal classes in the slums of London.
  
  ## Cast
  
  * Jack Holt as Jack Hearne, the Romany Rye
  * Wallace Beery as Bos
  * Lew Cody as Phillip Royston
  * Tully Marshall as Joe Heckett
  * Seena Owen as Laura
  * Pauline Starke as Ruth Heckett
  
  ## Preservation status
  
  A print is preserved at Filmmuseum Amsterdam aka the EYE Institut.
  
  