The Impostor is a 1926 American silent crime film directed by Chester Withey and starring Evelyn Brent, Carroll Nye, and James Morrison.

[1] As described in a film magazine,[2] Dick Gilbert, a struggling young man, uses a family jewel as collateral for a loan to cover his gambling debts.

His sister Judith disguises herself as a street girl to retrieve the jewel, which her father was holding as security for a Count.

After learning that the jewel has been sold to a social climber seeking to improve her standing with the Gilbert family, Judith, still disguised as a thief, offers to impersonate herself at a garden party.

The brother is forgiven, and Bruce Gordon, a newspaper reporter who has been following the "girl thief" for the story, desires to marry her to "make an honest woman of her" and learns her identity.