Desc: Parted Curtains: Directed by Bertram Bracken, James C. Bradford. With Henry B. Walthall, Mary Alden, William Clifford, Edward Cecil. A young man just released from prison can't find work because no employer will hire an ex-convict. Broke and hungry, he steals money off of a painter. The painter, however, takes pity on him and decides to help him get his life back together.