What Would You Do(1920)
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.
Movie: What Would You Do
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Claudia Chilson
Hugh Chilson (as George McDaniel)
Curtis Brainerd
Robert Brainerd
Tom Holbrook
Le Roi Andrews
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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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1920-01-01
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