A Sporting Chance

Story

Synopsis

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.

Director

Henry King

Writers

Jules Furthman

Language

English

Country

United States of America

Release date

28 June 1919

Ensemble

Cast

• 

  William Russell

  John Stonehouse

• 

  Fritzi Brunette

  Gilberte Bonheur

• 

  George Periolat

  Edward Craig

• 

  J. Farrell MacDonald

  Luther Ripley aka Kennedy

• Lee Hill

  George Cornhill

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  Harvey Clark

  Aaron Witt

• Perry Banks

  Anthony James