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The Shell Game

Released: 1918-03-04
Studios: Metro Pictures Corporation,


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.

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Cast

Joseph Kilgour
Character: 'Silk' Wilkins
Henry Kolker
Character: Lawrence Gray
Emmy Wehlen
Character: Zlice Sheldon

Ricca Allen
Character: Landlady
Donald MacBride
Character: Vocal Teacher
Fanny Cogan
Character: Mrs. Wentworth

Hugh Jeffrey
Character: Headwaiter
Richard Thornton
Character: Hotel Manager
Clarence Heritage
Character: The Maestro


Production and Crew

Maxwell Karger
Supervising Producer

Eugene Gaudio
Cinematography