The Wonderful Chance
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| Directed by | George Archainbaud |
| Produced by | Selznick Pictures |
| Written by | H. H. Van Loan (original story) Mary Murillo (scenario) Melville Hammett (scenario) |
| Starring | Eugene O'Brien Martha Mansfield Rudolph Valentino |
| Distributed by | Select Pictures |
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52 minutes; 5 reels (5,137 feet) |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
The Wonderful Chance (also The Thug and His Wonderful Chance) is a 1920 American silent crime drama film produced by Lewis Selznick and released by Select Pictures. This picture stars Eugene O'Brien and was directed by George Archainbaud. While this film survives today in several archives, it is best known for featuring Rudolph Valentino in a villain role rather than the hero. In the 1960s scenes from the film were used in the documentary The Legend of Rudolph Valentino (1961) narrated by Graeme Ferguson.[1][2][3]
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Cast
- Eugene O'Brien - Lord Birmingham / 'Swagger' Barlow
- Martha Mansfield - Peggy Winton
- Tom Blake - 'Red' Dugan
- Rudolph Valentino - Joe Klinsby
- Joseph Flanagan - Haggerty (as Joe Flanagan)
- Warren Cook - Parker Winton
Preservation
Copies of the film are in the George Eastman House Motion Picture Collection and Museum of Modern Art film archive, and it has been released on dvd.[3]
References
- ↑ The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1911-20 published by The American Film Institute, c.1988
- ↑ The AFI Catalog of Feature Films:..The Wonderful chance
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Progressive Silent Film List: The Wonderful Chance at silentera.com
External links
- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). The Wonderful Chance at IMDb
- The Wonderful Chance synopsis at AllMovie
- The Wonderful Chance available for free download at Internet Archive
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