The People vs. Nancy Preston is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by Tom Forman and starring Marguerite De La Motte, John Bowers, and Frankie Darro.

[1][2] As described in a film magazine reviews,[3] Bill Preston and Mike Horgan, prisoners at Sing Sing, become friends, and while Bill dreams of the day when he will be with his wife Nancy and his boy Bubsy, Mike studies medicine so that he can go straight when he is released.

Bill goes to work when he gets out, but Gloomy Gus Cole, operative for the Tierney Detective Agency, chases him from one job to another until he is forced to commit a robbery again to support his family and is killed attempting to break into a bank.

Mike receives the dead man's request that he provide care and support for Nancy and the boy, and when he is released he goes to them.

In the detention home Nancy meets Enrico Pasquale, who provides her bail.