Crooked Streets is a 1920 American silent drama spy film directed by Paul Powell and produced by Famous Players–Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures.

It is one of star Ethel Clayton's rare surviving silent films with a copy at the Library of Congress.

[2][3][4] As described in a film magazine,[5] Gail Ellis (Clayton) is employed as a secretary by Professor Lawrence Griswold (Fillmore) prior to his departure from San Francisco for Shanghai, ostensibly in that city to purchase some rare vases.

In the city she meets with adventures while trying to find the headquarters of the pottery merchants and is saved from molestation by Englishman Rupert O'Dare (Holt), who has to battle a drunken sailor in a boxing ring before the latter will leave her alone.

As the Griswolds are about to depart for America, having purchased several cases of vases that contain opium, Rupert causes them to be arrested.