title: The Stolen Play
text: # The Stolen Play
  
  The Stolen Play is a 1917 silent film directed by Harry Harvey from a script by the Horkheimer brothers for their Balboa Amusement Producing Company (aka Falcon Features).
  
  ## Plot
  
  A blind playwright is engaged to his assistant, and the two are close to completion of a new play, which is so dark and morbid that they find themselves on the brink of breakdowns. A greedy agent who has admired the playwright's previous work will stop at nothing to secure the play for himself.
  
  ## Cast
  
  * Ruth Roland as Sylvia Smalley
  * Ed Brady as Leroux
  * William Conklin as Charles Edmay
  * Makoto Inokuchi as Togo
  