I Am the Law (1922 film)

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I Am the Law is a 1922 American drama film starring Alice Lake and Kenneth Harlan, and featuring Noah Beery, Sr. and Wallace Beery. The movie was written by Raymond L. Schrock based upon a 1910 story by James Oliver Curwood, and directed by Edwin Carewe. Curwood successfully sued Affiliated Distributors to have his name taken off of the film as he felt it did not resemble his short story, a result next achieved 70 years later when Stephen King successfully sued to have his name taken off of The Lawnmower Man.

Plot

The plot, as described by the defendants in the 1922 court case regarding the attribution of the Curwood story:

Cast

Preservation

With no prints of I Am the Law located in any film archives, it is considered a lost film.

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