The Danger Game

The Danger Game

1918 · 50 min · Comedy

Wealthy Clytie Rogers writes a novel in which a society girl commits a burglary, but it is "roasted" by critic Jimmy Gilpin, who writes that her story is completely implausible. To prove him wrong, Clytie decides to feign a robbery and enters an apartment through an open window. She is apprehended by a policeman, who mistakes her for local robber "Powder Nose Annie." Gilpin sees her in jail and, posing as crook Jimmy of the Dives, arranges to break her out and take her on a robbing spree. Finally, Jimmy returns her to her parents and then calls at her home as Gilpin, the critic. Clytie is suprised but forgives the deception and agrees to marry him.

Directed by Harry A. Pollard · Written by Roy Somerville

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Madge Kennedy Clytie Rogers
Tom Moore Jimmy Gilpin
Paul Doucet LeRoy Hunter
Ned Burton William Rogers
Mabel Ballin May Wentworth
Kate Blancke Mrs. Rogers

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