Walter makes a Movie was directed by Tom Seymour and Walter Forde in 1922. Forde plays a petty thief who steals from film star Pauline Highbrow (Pauline Peters). Pursued by the police he ends up in the Star Film Company's studio during the shooting of her latest melodrama.
Walter poses as a detective to impress his girlfriend and ends up having to fend off thieves who try to steal her father's valuable diamond, kept on board his houseboat.