White Tiger (1923 film)

White Tiger is a 1923 American silent crime film directed by Tod Browning starring Priscilla Dean and featuring Wallace Beery in a supporting role.

The three plan to use the automaton to gain access to the houses of the wealthy in order to carry out jewel robberies.

Meanwhile Sylvia has fallen for an admirer, the well-bred Dick Longworth, who takes them to visit his hunting cabin in the Catskills.

In White Tiger, Browning, a former magician, provides an exposé of the “mystifying mechanics” of the famous chess-playing automaton widely exhibited in late 18th and early 19th century Europe and America.

[6][7] The protagonists in White Tiger use the “baffling” device to gain entrance to a wealthy estate and execute a jewel heist.

[8] In exposing the fraud, Browning violates a precept of the magician's code of ethics; to never reveal the mechanics of an illusion.

White Tiger (full film)