The Lone Wolf Returns is a 1926 American silent mystery film directed by Ralph Ince and starring Bert Lytell, Billie Dove, and Freeman Wood.

[3] As described in a film magazine review,[4] crook Michael Lanyard, known internationally as the Lone Wolf, is discovered while rifling a home in a fashionable section of town.

He escapes by a ruse and climbs the balcony of another house, Marcia Mayfair's home, where a masque ball is underway.

He asks the detective on the case to give him until midnight to prove his innocence, which he is anxious to do on account of his feelings for Marcia.

A complete print of The Lone Wolf Returns is preserved in the George Eastman Museum Motion Picture Collection.