I Am the Law is a 1922 American drama film starring Alice Lake and Kenneth Harlan, and featuring Noah Beery, Sr. and Wallace Beery.

The movie was written by Raymond L. Schrock based upon a 1910 story by James Oliver Curwood,[1] and directed by Edwin Carewe.

Curwood successfully sued Affiliated Distributors to have his name taken off of the film as he felt it did not resemble his short story,[1] a result next achieved 70 years later when Stephen King successfully sued to have his name taken off of The Lawnmower Man.

[2] The plot, as described by the defendants in the 1922 court case regarding the attribution of the Curwood story: With no prints of I Am the Law located in any film archives, it is considered a lost film.

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