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The Crippled Hand

1916 film directed by David Kirkland and Robert Z. Leonard

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ84863064 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Crippled Hand is a 1916 American silent drama film directed by David Kirkland and Robert Z. Leonard and starring Leonard, Gladys Brockwell and Marc B. Robbins.

Cast

Robert Z. Leonard as The Rich Man

Ella Hall as The Little Girl

Marc B. Robbins as The Manager

Gladys Brockwell as The Prima Donna

Kingsley Benedict as The Cripple

References

Bibliography

Slide, Anthony. Silent Players: A Biographical and Autobiographical Study of 100 Silent Film Actors and Actresses. University Press of Kentucky, 2002.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “The Crippled Hand” as 1916 film directed by David Kirkland and Robert Z. Leonard. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1916, 2002—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1916-05-01. The account is most persuasive where Crippled, Hand and film can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as 1916 film directed by David Kirkland and Robert Z. Leonard. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q84863064. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1916 and 2002.

Critical limits

Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “The Crippled Hand”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow The Crippled Hand primary sources, The Crippled Hand archive and Crippled research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “The Crippled Hand”?
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  3. Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
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This entry incorporates text from “The Crippled Hand” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.