A Sporting Chance


1919

Film Details

Also Known As
The Signet of Sheba
Release Date
Jun 29, 1919
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
American Film Co.; Williams Russell Productions
Distribution Company
Pathé Exchange, Inc.
Country
United States

Technical Specs

Sound
Silent
Color
Black and White
Theatrical Aspect Ratio
1.33 : 1
Film Length
4,670ft (5 reels)

Synopsis

The clerks at a New York hotel near Times Square turn away customers until they approve millionaire John Stonehouse and give him room 420. While attempting suicide, John hears a shot from a nearby room. Finding Gilberte Bonheur bending over the limp body of Aaron Witt, whom, she says, she shot when he tried to assault her, John, wanting to die anyway, offers to take the blame. He escapes afer recovering an emerald that Witt used to blackmail Gilberte. After Gilberte, Witt, and the clerks conspire, John helps Gilberte hide Witt, who revives and demands the emerald or its value. John writes a check and leaves taking a theater ticket given to him by Gilbert. John, who contemplated suicide because he accidentally drank a strange poison, now receives an antidote which his chemist created. Cured, he goes to the theater and sees the happenings in the hotel enacted. Backstage, Gilberte explains that the ruse was to prove to a critic that the plot could really happen. They then confess their mutual love.

Film Details

Also Known As
The Signet of Sheba
Release Date
Jun 29, 1919
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
American Film Co.; Williams Russell Productions
Distribution Company
Pathé Exchange, Inc.
Country
United States

Technical Specs

Sound
Silent
Color
Black and White
Theatrical Aspect Ratio
1.33 : 1
Film Length
4,670ft (5 reels)

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Notes

The title of this film was originally announced as The Signet of Sheba. Stephen Fox was the pseudonym of Jules Furthman.