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The Scarlet Car(1917)
Status: Released
Date: 1917-12-24
45%
10 Votes
Time: 0h 50m
Overview:
Paul Revere Forbes, an descendant of Paul Revere, is a teller at Cyrus Peabody's bank. He learns that Cyrus and his son, Ernest, have speculated with $35,000 of the bank's money, and the entire sum has been lost.
Languages: No Language.
Countries:
United States of America
ProductionCompanies:
Bluebird Photoplays
Universal Film Manufacturing Company
Movie: The Scarlet Car
Top 10 Billed Cast
Franklyn Farnum
Billy Winthrop
Edith Johnson
Beatrice Forbes
Lon Chaney
Paul Revere Forbes
Sam De Grasse
Ernest Peabody
Al W. Filson
Samuel Winthrop
Howard Crampton
Cyrus Peabody
William Humphrey
Member of Directors' Meeting (uncredited)
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Paul Revere Forbes, an descendant of Paul Revere, is a teller at Cyrus Peabody's bank. He learns that Cyrus and his son, Ernest, have speculated with $35,000 of the bank's money, and the entire sum has been lost.
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1917-12-24
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