A Couple of Down and Outs [SEP] director
A Couple of Down and Outs
A Couple of Down and Outs is a 1923 British silent drama film directed by Walter Summers and starring  Edna Best, Rex Davis and George Foley. 
Production.
It was made at Isleworth Studios. The film sought to raise public sympathy for veterans of the First World War struggling in the years of peace as well as animals who had undergone war service. Summers, who had himself served during the conflict, made a number of films using the war as backdrop.
Synopsis
end, Summers worked briefly for Cecil Hepworth, and then the Territorial Unit in India before making contact with producer/director George B. Samuelson. Samuelson hired Summers as a writer, primarily on films starring the popular actress Lillian Hall-Davis such as "Maisie’s Marriage" (1923). Summers co-directed a couple of pictures with Samuelson before flying solo for the first time with a drama, "A Couple of Down and Outs" (1923). Summers followed this up with "Who Is the Man?