Jack Breen and his wife, Lizzie, are professional crooks, who live in a fine house and set themselves up as belonging to the best. Breen gets his living by various means, including begging. He dresses in ragged clothes and picks up crusts in the street, which he pretends to eat, thereby exciting the sympathy of passers-by.
Watch the official Tricks of the Trade 1913 trailer in HD below.
Sorry, we can't find the movie trailer you're looking for.
Either a trailer for this movie has not been released yet, or it was removed following a request from the copyright holder.
Harry T. Morey as Jack Breen - a Fake Beggar
Julia Swayne Gordon as Lizzie Breen - Jack's Wife & Accomplice
Robert Gaillard as 1st Detective
Dorothy Kelly as 2nd Detective
Mary Maurice as Jennie Corcoran
Joseph Baker as Jack Williams
United States 27 May 1913
If you liked the Tricks of the Trade trailer, you may like these ones:
12 April 1925
Ann, a 19-year-old girl who looks much younger, meets a dashing army major on a boat sailing from Liverpool to Bombay, India, and falls in love with him.
06 September 1925
Ann Barton, the daughter of a once-wealthy family, is forced to clerk at the cigar counter of a village hotel, where she meets James McDonald, a breezy, handsome salesman.
17 April 1921
Because of the circumstances of her parents' marriage her grandfather rejects their child, Mary. Following her their deaths she is placed in an orphanage where Mary finds hardship.
01 November 1919
American newspaper reporter Jim Crocker's madcap escapades in London earn him notoriety and the nickname "Piccadilly Jim.
21 February 1920
A husband is addicted to the habit of going duck-hunting occasionally. Wifey suspects that his object is chasing chickens - those that walk with two feet - and so starts in pursuit.
22 November 1926
Philandering husband George Montfort purchases railroad tickets for a weekend tryst in the mountains with his latest paramour.
01 October 1924
A Son of Satan is a 1924 silent race film directed, written, produced and distributed by Oscar Micheaux.
04 September 1927
A young man marries an actress, but meanwhile her uncle has signed a contract binding her to spinsterhood, many complications arise.
24 November 1917
A hard-core socialite turns over a new leaf after spending time with a less fortunate family.
25 May 1919
A lost film. Teddy Drake is a pleasure-seeking aristocrat who ends up expelled from his exclusive Fifth Avenue club for playing practical jokes and other rambunctious antics.
15 March 1915
Frank Perry's wife Helen is away visiting her mother, and he uses this "free time" for a night of drinking at a nightclub.
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1913:
23 November 1913
Fatty rescues the daughter of the police commisioner and is given a job as an officer as a reward, but its not all its cracked up to be!
24 October 1913
An heiress is saved from the predations of a gang of gentleman crooks by a female detective and her father.
20 March 1913
Wilbur Stone is falsely accused of a crime, convicted on circumstantial evidence and "railroaded" to the penitentiary.
16 May 1913
Ishmael, the son of Hagar, an old hag, living on the edge of the desert, falls completely under the charms of Lispeth, a vampire.
01 April 1913
A girl, beautiful but heartless and ambitious, was the daughter of a poor miner and was devotedly loved by a man in her own station of life.
08 July 1913
Frank and Julia are very good friends, both being single, and live in adjoining apartments. Getting a letter from a friend who asks him to buy an engagement ring.
01 June 1913
The items presented are: “The latest American dance sensation THE BUMBLE BEE STING as being danced with enormous success nightly by SEYMOUR HICKS” “FACIAL EXPRESSIONS BY SEYMOUR HICKS – ‘some do it this way’ (the various ways of kissing)”; followed by “The various ways of taking medicine” “MISS ELLALINE TERRISS and original company in her well known dance from the Musical play THE MODEL AND THE MAID (‘If I were a boy’)”.
09 January 1913
Marie, the daughter of a pastor, and major Trolle are young and in love, and they seem destined to become engaged.
12 April 1913
The supposition was that she was born a tease, for from her first teeth to the time she was almost grown, she vented her witcheries on her unsuspecting parents and the wild things of her mountain home.
29 December 1913
Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.
23 July 1913
Mildred is staying with her grandfather, Civil War veteran Jabez Burr, when she receives a letter from her father.
Have you watched Tricks of the Trade yet? What did you think about it?
Artwork, screen shots, trailers and other imagery is © 1913 Vitagraph Company of America.
