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The Shell Game (1918)

ALL 03/04/1918 (en) Drama 50 Min
  • Release
    03/04/1918
  • Production
    Metro Pictures Corporation
  • Rotten tomato
    0%
  • Original title
    The Shell Game
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
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"What is a shell game?" In this case Almond shells enter into the plot which is concerned with the schemes of a confident man de luxe.

Overview

New York confidence man "Silk" Wilkins ingratiates himself with millionaire Lawrence Gray, knowing Gray’s wife and daughter Zelda were lost in a flood eighteen years earlier. After promising to find Gray's daughter, Silk returns to his boardinghouse, where he finds Alice Sheldon, broke and about to commit suicide. Silk convinces Alice to pose as Zelda Gray and then notifies Lawrence via a note placed in an almond shell that he has found the lost daughter. Lawrence treats Alice so kindly that when Silk demands payment from her on Christmas morning, she refuses. Lawrence, who has overheard the conversation, enters and laughingly reveals that he had known of the frame-up all along. Grateful to Silk for finding him a wife, Lawrence writes the confidence man a large check.

  1. George D. Baker

    Director

  3. Editor

  4. Producer



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  1. Joseph Kilgour

    'Silk' Wilkins

  2. Henry Kolker

    Lawrence Gray

  3. Emmy Wehlen

    Zlice Sheldon

  4. Ricca Allen

    Landlady

  5. Donald MacBride

    Vocal Teacher

  6. Fanny Cogan

    Mrs. Wentworth

  7. Hugh Jeffrey

    Headwaiter

  8. Richard Thornton

    Hotel Manager

  9. Clarence Heritage

    The Maestro

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Casts : 9 , Crews : 5

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The Shell Game (1918) 50 Min

ALL 03/04/1918 (en)
Drama
  • Release 03/04/1918
  • Production
    Metro Pictures Corporation
  • Original title The Shell Game
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

"What is a shell game?" In this case Almond shells enter into the plot which is concerned with the schemes of a confident man de luxe.

Overview

New York confidence man "Silk" Wilkins ingratiates himself with millionaire Lawrence Gray, knowing Gray’s wife and daughter Zelda were lost in a flood eighteen years earlier. After promising to find Gray's daughter, Silk returns to his boardinghouse, where he finds Alice Sheldon, broke and about to commit suicide. Silk convinces Alice to pose as Zelda Gray and then notifies Lawrence via a note placed in an almond shell that he has found the lost daughter. Lawrence treats Alice so kindly that when Silk demands payment from her on Christmas morning, she refuses. Lawrence, who has overheard the conversation, enters and laughingly reveals that he had known of the frame-up all along. Grateful to Silk for finding him a wife, Lawrence writes the confidence man a large check.

  1. George D. Baker

    Director

  2. Kenneth Roberts

    Story

  3. Editor

  4. Producer



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