Gates of Brass
Cast & Crew
Ernest C. Warde
Frank Keenan
Lois Wilson
George Fisher
Clyde Benson
Edwin Tilton
Film Details
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Synopsis
Jim Blake, a master of the shell game, practices his skills at country fairs, circuses and carnivals until he becomes "J. Hatfield Blake," the promoter of phony stock and land deals which provide his beloved daughter Margaret with luxuries. Margaret falls in love with Dick Wilbur but Dick leaves her because Blake swindles his father out of $100,000 and Margaret sides with Blake. When Margaret meets a poor widow with starving babies to whom Blake sold some worthless desert land, she leaves him, saying she will not return until he rectifies his wrong-doings. She marries Dick, while Blake, shaken by her words, repays everyone who suffered from his dishonesty after he legitimately strikes oil. Alone on Christmas Eve, Blake invites some barroom characters to his mansion for a drunken dinner, after which, at his urging, they take his silverware and paintings. Blake continues to drink and when Margaret and Dick arrive to surprise him, they find him dead.
Director
Ernest C. Warde
Cast
Frank Keenan
Lois Wilson
George Fisher
Clyde Benson
Edwin Tilton
Lillian Langdon
Frank De Loan
Tula Belle
Bobby Mack
Film Details
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Notes
Working titles of this film were The Game and Emanuel Blake. It was filmed at the Robert Brunton Studios in Los Angeles, where a preview showing was held on April 10, 1919.
