Beauty and the Rogue is a 1918 American silent comedy crime drama film directed by Henry King and starring Mary Miles Minter.

[3] As described in various film magazine reviews,[4][5][6][7] Roberta "Bobby" Lee (Minter) is a wealthy and optimistic girl who believes in prison uplift work.

She persuades her father Thomas (Periolat) to take ex-convict "Slippery" Bill Dorgan (Humphrey) into his employ as a gardener.

The same night that Roberta leaves for a vacation on a country ranch, Dorgan steals her jewellery and runs away.

Believing Van Stone to have stolen from her, Roberta immediately has him arrested, although he protests his innocence and tells her that he bought the brooch from a tramp.