The Diamond Man is a 1924 British crime film

Crime film

Crime films are films which focus on the lives of criminals. The stylistic approach to a crime film varies from realistic portrayals of real-life criminal figures, to the far-fetched evil doings of imaginary arch-villains. Criminal acts are almost always glorified in these movies.- Plays and films...

 directed by Arthur Rooke

Arthur Rooke

Arthur Rooke was a British actor and film director of the silent era. Rooke had worked in the theatre for many years before he went into films. He initially co-directed several films with A.E. Coleby, but later began directing films by himself...

 and starring Arthur Wontner

Arthur Wontner

Arthur Wontner was a British actor best known for playing Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's master detective Sherlock Holmes in five films from 1931 to 1937...

, Mary Odette

Mary Odette

Marie Odette Goimbault was a French-born film actress. She acted during the silent era under the name Mary Odette.-Selected filmography:* Torn Sails * The Hypocrites * The Lion's Mouse...

 and Reginald Fox

Reginald Fox

-Selected filmography:* Daniel Deronda * The Kensington Mystery * Livingstone * Robinson Crusoe * Troublesome Wives * The American Prisoner * The Compulsory Husband...

. It was based on a novel by Edgar Wallace

Edgar Wallace

Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace was an English crime writer, journalist, novelist, screenwriter, and playwright, who wrote 175 novels, 24 plays, and numerous articles in newspapers and journals....

. The movie is silent and black and white. Distributed by Butcher's film service, script written by Eliot Stannard, and produced by I.B. Davidson Film Company.

Cast

• Arthur Wontner
  Arthur Wontner
  Arthur Wontner was a British actor best known for playing Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's master detective Sherlock Holmes in five films from 1931 to 1937...
  
   - Lacy Marshalt
• Mary Odette
  Mary Odette
  Marie Odette Goimbault was a French-born film actress. She acted during the silent era under the name Mary Odette.-Selected filmography:* Torn Sails * The Hypocrites * The Lion's Mouse...
  
   - Audrey Torrington (Or Audrey Bedford)
• Reginald Fox
  Reginald Fox
  -Selected filmography:* Daniel Deronda * The Kensington Mystery * Livingstone * Robinson Crusoe * Troublesome Wives * The American Prisoner * The Compulsory Husband...
  
   - Dick Shannon
• Gertrude McCoy
  Gertrude McCoy
  Gertrude McCoy was an American film actress of the silent era. She appeared in 131 films between 1911 and 1926.She was born in Sugar Valley, Georgia and died in Atlanta, Georgia.-Selected filmography:...
  
   - Mrs. Marshalt
• Philip Hewland
  Philip Hewland
  -Selected filmography:* The Manxman * Lady Tetley's Decree * The Guns of Loos * Glamour * The Sleeping Cardinal * The Missing Rembrandt * Murder by Rope...
  
   - Henry Torrington
• George Turner - Peter Tonger

Plot

The Diamond Man is about an orphan who takes the blame for her sister's crime, and later reveals her boss as her evil husband.