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Flirting with fate / directed by Christy Cabanne ; produced by David Shepard and D.W. Griffith.
Connect to streaming video Available online
View online- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Silent film online.
- Silent film online
- Language:
- English
- No linguistic content
- Subjects (All):
- Attempted murder--Drama.
- Attempted murder.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 streaming video file (57 min.) : sound, black and white.
- monochrome
- Other Title:
- The assassin
- Place of Publication:
- Los Angeles : Flicker Alley, 1916.
- Language Note:
- This edition silent with English intertitles and musical background.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- video file
- Summary:
- Douglas Fairbanks came from Broadway to the movies in 1915 when high salaries were luring well-known stage actors to the new feature-length pictures. Although most of these performers failed to 'register' on camera and returned to New York, Fairbanks quickly became a supernova. His energetic, optimistic character, his ingratiating smile, his graceful, acrobatic stunts (he did his own), clever writing, and accomplished staging rapidly made Fairbanks one of the most admired stars in the world. Flirting With Fate (1916), a modern-dress comedy, was directed by Christy Cabanne; it stars Fairbanks, Jewel Carmen, and Howard Gaye. Fairbanks is a depressed man who hires another man to kill him, and then changes his mind and must escape the hired murderer.
- Notes:
- Title from title frames (Silent Film Online, viewed Apr. 4, 2014).
- Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2014. (Silent film online). Available via World Wide Web.
- OCLC:
- 881550425
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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