A Sporting Chance

1919 ""

A Sporting Chance

6.8 | 1h0m | en | Drama

John Stonehouse (William Russell) checks into a hotel, intending to commit suicide. But instead he winds up helping a girl, Gilberte Bonheur (Fritzi Brunette), out of a jam. He finds her bending over a man who she has apparently killed, and since he's about to kill himself anyway, he offers to assume the blame. Throw a valuable emerald into the works, and the fact that the dead man suddenly comes back to life, and Stonehouse -- not to mention the audience -- becomes thoroughly befuddled by it all. Everything clears up, however, when Gilberte gives him a theater ticket -- it turns out that everything he went through was the plot to a stage play, enacted in real life by the actors. The critics roasted the play, saying it wasn't true to life, and this was their proof that the situations really could happen. Gilberte retires from acting when Stonehouse proposes.

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6.8 | 1h0m | en | More Info

Released: June. 28,1919 | Released Producted By: American Film Company , William Russell Productions Inc. Country: United States of America Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:

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Genre

Drama , Comedy , Mystery

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Cast

William Russell , Fritzi Brunette , George Periolat , J. Farrell MacDonald , Harvey Clark

Director

George Rizard

Producted By

American Film Company

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William Russell

as John Stonehouse

The Biscuit Eater The Desired Woman The Blue Eagle The Crusader The Iron Rider The Lincoln Highwayman King Rene’s Daughter The Saleslady Rejuvenation

Fritzi Brunette

as Gilberte Bonheur

Honeymoon in Bali Tailspin Tommy in The Great Air Mystery The Crusader $30,000 The House of Whispers The Devil to Pay Live Sparks The Dream Cheater The Railroader A Sporting Chance

George Periolat

as Edward Craig

Through Thick and Thin The Prairie King The Volga Boatman Atta Boy The Trouble Chaser The Girl on the Stairs Fighting Youth The Yankee Consul The Red Lily Rosita

J. Farrell MacDonald

as Luther Ripley aka Kennedy

Mr. Belvedere Rings the Bell Superman and the Mole Men Hostile Country Dakota Lil The Daltons' Women Woman on the Run The Dalton Gang Whispering Smith Fury at Furnace Creek Panhandle

Harvey Clark

as Aaron Witt

One Wild Night Arsène Lupin Returns Partners of the Plains Devil's Playground History Is Made at Night It's Love I'm After Women of Glamour Three Godfathers The Boss Rider of Gun Creek No Greater Glory

George Rizard

Director of Photography

Sidney Algier

Assistant Director

Henry King

Director

Jules Furthman

Writer

A Sporting Chance Audience Reviews

Greenes Please don't spend money on this.

Myron Clemons A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

Married Baby Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable