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A Sporting Chance

06/28/1919

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1hr 0min

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Mystery

,Drama

,Comedy

STORY

John Stonehouse (William Russell) checks into a hotel, intending to commit suicide. But instead he winds up helping a girl, Gilberte Bonheur (Fritzi Brunette), out of a jam. He finds her bending over a man who she has apparently killed, and since he's about to kill himself anyway, he offers to assume the blame. Throw a valuable emerald into the works, and the fact that the dead man suddenly comes back to life, and Stonehouse -- not to mention the audience -- becomes thoroughly befuddled by it all. Everything clears up, however, when Gilberte gives him a theater ticket -- it turns out that everything he went through was the plot to a stage play, enacted in real life by the actors. The critics roasted the play, saying it wasn't true to life, and this was their proof that the situations really could happen. Gilberte retires from acting when Stonehouse proposes.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • William Russell
  • Fritzi Brunette
  • George Periolat
  • J. Farrell MacDonald
  • Lee Hill

    Directors

  • Henry King
  • Sidney Algier

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • American Film Company
  • William Russell Productions Inc.

    Production Countries

  • United States of America

LANGUAGES

    Cast

    William Russell

    John Stonehouse

    Fritzi Brunette

    Gilberte Bonheur

    George Periolat

    Edward Craig

    J. Farrell MacDonald

    Luther Ripley aka Kennedy

    Lee Hill

    George Cornhill

    Harvey Clark

    Aaron Witt

    Perry Banks

    Anthony James

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