A Dangerous Affair (1919)

A Dangerous Affair

1919

Drama

Synopsis

Elderly millionaire James Rance, whose only passion is chess, warns his grandson Tommy, who missed the previous evening's game because he played poker with his uncle Gilbert, that should he miss another game, Gilbert will gain the boy's inheritance. During another poker game the next night, Gilbert provokes a fight between Tommy and another player that results in the other player's supposed death. Meanwhile, Terrence Redmond, the guardian of an orphan he found while fighting in France, falls in love with Dawn Moyer.

Credits

Director

Charles Miller

Cast

Charles A. Stevenson as Patrick Moyer (as Charles Stevenson)

Ernest Torrence as Abner (as Ernest Torrance)

Florence Billings as Dawn Moyer

Herbert Rawlinson as Terrence Redmond

Regina Quinn as Asta

Stuart Holmes as Gilbert Rance

Vinton Freedley as Tommy Rance (as Vinton Friedley)

Warren Cook as James Rance (as Warren Cooke)