The Shell Game

The Shell Game (1918)

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.

Data di uscita
1918-03-04
Durata
50 min
Generi
Dramma
Regista
George D. Baker

Cast

Curiosità

The Shell Game è un film muto del 1918 scritto e diretto da George D. Baker. La sceneggiatura si basa su Good Will and Almond Shells, un racconto di Kenneth L. Roberts pubblicato il 22 dicembre 1917 su The Saturday Evening Post.

Produzione

Il film fu prodotto dalla Metro Pictures Corporation con il titolo di lavorazione Good Will and Almond Shells.

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