What Would You Do
NR 1920 · 50 min · ★ 9.0 · Drama
Released in January 1920, this silent romantic love triangle crime melodrama, about a man who sells fake stock and fakes his suicide. His wife remarries, but her new husband suffers a crippling accident, and wants to die, so she gives him a gun. The day he succeeds, her first husband returns, having made a fortune, and they are united.
Directed by Edmund Lawrence · Written by Denison Clift
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Madlaine Traverse Claudia Chilson -
George A. McDaniel Hugh Chilson (as George McDaniel) -
Frank Elliott Curtis Brainerd -
Charles K. French Robert Brainerd - L Lenore Lynard Lily Brainerd
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Bud Geary Tom Holbrook -
Edwin B. Tilton Le Roi Andrews - C Cordelia Callahan Nurse
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