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What Would You Do

What Would You Do

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What Would You Do

1920

0h 50m

9.0(1 votes)

Drama

Overview

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.

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Fox Film Corporation

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Cast & crew

8 featured cast members

Starring

Madlaine Traverse

Madlaine Traverse

Claudia Chilson

George A. McDaniel

George A. McDaniel

Hugh Chilson (as George McDaniel)

Frank Elliott

Frank Elliott

Curtis Brainerd

Charles K. French

Charles K. French

Robert Brainerd

Lenore Lynard

Lily Brainerd

Bud Geary

Bud Geary

Tom Holbrook

Edwin B. Tilton

Edwin B. Tilton

Le Roi Andrews

Cordelia Callahan

Nurse

Creative team

Directed by: Edmund Lawrence
Written by: Denison Clift

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