Fighting Odds
Cast & Crew
Allan Dwan
Maxine Elliott
Henry Clive
Charles Dalton
George Odell
Regan Hughston
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Synopsis
In Detroit, auto factory owner James Copley, guided by his wife's ideas, pays his workers well, and thus becomes successful in the industry. Envious Wall Street financial power John W. Blake organizes with his cronies the Amalgamated Motors Company, a trust, and persuades Copley, against his wife's wishes, to become its president. Copley soon learns that he has signed away the control of his plant. Later, through Blake's connivance, the trust fails, and Copley, who unknowningly signed a doctored statement of the trust's financial resources, is imprisoned in Sing Sing for violating the Sherman Antitrust Law. Suspecting Blake's scheme, Mrs. Copley, disguised as a wealthy English widow, befriends Blake, who becomes enamored of her. After Mrs. Copley, assisted by the district attorney, learns about revealing papers in Blake's home vault, she visits Blake at midnight, but he accidentally learns her identity and locks her in the safe. Blake's butler, an undercover detective, prevents him from fleeing. Blake is sent to prison and Copley is released.
Director
Allan Dwan
Cast
Maxine Elliott
Henry Clive
Charles Dalton
George Odell
Regan Hughston
William T. Carleton
Eric Hudson
Crew
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This was famous stage actress Maxine Elliott's first film. According to reviews, the play Under Sentence, which was a failure on stage, was re-written for the screen by the authors, and in the film the original play was not mentioned. Reviewers also commented on the lack of many close-ups of Maxine Elliott in the film, which, they surmised, was used to convey a more youthful appearance to her. The film opened in New York on September 30, 1917.
