Miss 139
Cast & Crew
B. A. Rolfe
Diana Allen
Marc Mcdermott
Eugene Strong
E. J. Radcliffe
Tatjana Irrah
Film Details
Synopsis
A band of New York counterfeiters, led by Professor John Breede and backed by banker Martin Cardine, has agreed to print a number of fake French notes for an overseas gang. Yvonne La Rue, an emissary sent by the French gang to pick up the notes, meets Captain Marlowe, an ex-soldier who returned from France to find that Cardine had ruined his father and married his sweetheart Vera. One of the New York gang, in love with Yvonne, kills Cardine and makes Marlowe believe that he himself committed the murder while drunk. Marlowe is then blackmailed into an in-name-only marriage with Yvonne to prevent her from being deported as an undesirable alien. Yvonne turns out to be a Secret Service agent who unmasks the counterfeit ring, and she and Marlowe fall in love.
Director
B. A. Rolfe
Cast
Diana Allen
Marc Mcdermott
Eugene Strong
E. J. Radcliffe
Tatjana Irrah
Sally Crute
John L. Shine
Gordon H. Standing
James A. Ryan
Film Details
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Notes
The film was advertised as ready for distribution by Sherman Productions in October 1920, but it seems unlikely that it was released until late 1921, when Jans put it on the state rights market under the title Amazing Lovers. It is listed under this title in the AFI Catalog of Feature Films, 1921-30 (F2.0110). The film should not be confused with the Fischer production released as Even as Eve in January 1920 and made under the working title Amazing Lovers. Given the parallels between the histories of this film and the Fischer production Man and Woman, it is possible that Miss 139 was also completed in early 1920 or earlier. One modern source lists the film as a six-reeler. Plot synopses in contemporary trade journals disagree on whether Cardine was killed and whether Marlowe and Yvonne had already been married before their forced marriage.
