The Shell Game
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.
Year: 1918
Genre: Drama
Studio: Metro Pictures Corporation
Director: George D. Baker
Cast: Joseph Kilgour, Henry Kolker, Emmy Wehlen, Ricca Allen, Donald MacBride, Fanny Cogan
Crew: George D. Baker (Director), George D. Baker (Writer), Kenneth Roberts (Story), Maxwell Karger (Supervising Producer), Eugene Gaudio (Cinematography)
Runtime: 50 minutes
Release: Mar 04, 1918
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Popularity: 0
Country: United States of America
Language: No Language
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
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