{{short description|1926 film}} {{Use mdy dates|date=September 2020}} {{Infobox film | name = Brooding Eyes | image = | caption = | director = Edward LeSaint | producer = | writer = {{ubl|Pierre Gendron|Mary Alice Scully}} | based_on = {{basedon|''The Man with the Brooding Eyes''|John Goodwin (pen name of Sidney Floyd Gowing)}} | starring = {{ubl|Lionel Barrymore|Ruth Clifford|Robert Ellis}} | music = | editing = | cinematography = | studio = Banner Productions | distributor = Henry Ginsberg Distributing Company | released = {{film date|1926|03|15}} | runtime = 60 min. | country = United States | language = Silent (English intertitles) | budget = | gross = }} '''''Brooding Eyes''''' is a 1926 American silent crime film directed by Edward LeSaint and starring Lionel Barrymore, Ruth Clifford, and Robert Ellis.<ref>Munden p. 94</ref><ref name="afi">{{cite web|url=https://catalog.afi.com/Film/3096-BROODING-EYES |title=''Brooding Eyes'' |work=afi.com |access-date=April 11, 2026}}</ref>
==Plot== As described in a film magazine review,<ref>{{cite journal |last= |first= |title=New Pictures: ''Brooding Eyes'' |journal=Exhibitors Herald |volume=24 |issue=13 |pages=66 |publisher=Exhibitors Herald Co. |date=13 March 1926 |location=Chicago |url=https://archive.org/details/exhibitorsherald24unse/page/66/mode/1up |accessdate=10 April 2023}} {{Source-attribution}}</ref> Slim Jim Carey, a titled nobleman who is also the leader of a band of crooks, is reported dead and leaves proof of his daughter’s claim to the estate with his henchmen. Not trusting them, he spies on them from behind his own portrait. With the aid of the man who loves his daughter, he frustrates their plots to get the money in the estate, and is caught by the police just as he is shot. Dying, he reveals his identity to the young man, but not to his daughter.
==Cast== * Lionel Barrymore as Slim Jim Carey * Ruth Clifford as Joan Ayre * Robert Ellis as Phillip Mott * Montagu Love as Pat Callaghan * William V. Mong as Slaney * Lucien Littlefield as Bell * John Miljan as Drummond * Dot Farley as Marie De Costa * Alma Bennett as Agnes De Costa
==References== {{Reflist}}
==Bibliography== * Munden, Kenneth White. ''The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1''. University of California Press, 1997.
==External links== *{{IMDb title|0016688}}
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Category:1926 films Category:1926 crime films Category:American silent crime films Category:Films directed by Edward LeSaint Category:American silent feature films Category:American black-and-white films Category:1926 English-language films Category:1926 American films Category:English-language crime films
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