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Edgar Jones.
Photograph: Silent Era image collection.
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The Vagaries of Fate
(1914) United States of America
B&W : One reel
Directed by Edgar Jones
Cast: Edgar Jones [District Attorney Gerald Durban], Louise Huff [Mrs. Durban, the district attorney’s wife], Thomas Walsh (Tom Walsh) [the first tough guy], George Gowan [the second tough guy], George Hartzell [the third tough guy], Jack Ridgeway [the chief of police], Bernard Siegel [the bartender]
Lubin Manufacturing Company production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Produced by Siegmund Lubin. / Released 6 February 1914. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Drama: Western.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? District Attorney Gerald Durban cuts short his honeymoon to conduct the trial of some members of a society of blackmailers. He is warned that his life will be forfeited if he sends them to jail, but he obtains a conviction. Other members of the society abduct him by luring his chauffeur away and one of their members taking the place of the driver. He is taken to a house in the suburbs and left bound and gagged before a time bomb that will explode in 20 minutes. On their way from the house the three plotters get into a row and a rifle is discharged. It shatters the glass of the room in which Durban is imprisoned, leaving the spectator to wonder if it has killed him, as a flash shows Durban collapsed. Ronca, one of the gang, telephones to Mrs. Durban, while the chief of police is questioning her. From the telephone central he obtains the address from which the call was made and phones the sergeant at the nearest precinct to get after the man, which they proceed to do in an auto. The chief gets on the scene in time to aid in the capture, and a mild third degree reveals the facts. They go to the house to find that the bullet shattered the clock and stopped the bomb.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 27 October 2024.
References: Website-IMDb.
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