The Shell Game
Overview
New York confidence man "Silk" Wilkins ingratiates himself with millionaire Lawrence Gray, knowing Gray’s wife and daughter Zelda were lost in a flood eighteen years earlier. After promising to find Gray's daughter, Silk returns to his boardinghouse, where he finds Alice Sheldon, broke and about to commit suicide. Silk convinces Alice to pose as Zelda Gray and then notifies Lawrence via a note placed in an almond shell that he has found the lost daughter. Lawrence treats Alice so kindly that when Silk demands payment from her on Christmas morning, she refuses. Lawrence, who has overheard the conversation, enters and laughingly reveals that he had known of the frame-up all along. Grateful to Silk for finding him a wife, Lawrence writes the confidence man a large check.
Release date
04/03/1918
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A Man's World
The Winning of Beatrice
Cyclone Higgins, D.D.
Virtuous Wives
Rose o' the Sea
The House of Tears
Building for Democracy
Kildare of Storm
Outwitted
The Racing Strain
Alias Ladyfingers
My Madonna
What Will People Say?
As the Sun Went Down
The Hole in the Wall
A Woman of France
The Devil at His Elbow
Rosemary
The Wall Between
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