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Fools in the Dark(1924)
Status: Released
Date: 1924-08-04
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Time: 1h 10m
Overview:
Percy Schwartz is the son of a rich trash-can manufacturer but forgoes joining the company business in order to write thriller movie stories about bigger-than-life heroes, which he also aspires to be. Percy is deeply in love with Ruth Rand, the niece of Dr. Rand. a world-exploring scientist who majors in the mysteries of the Orient. The latter, after hearing Percy read one of his blood-curdling scenarios to the awe-struck Ruth, decides to test Percy character. Percy goes to ask Dr. Rand for Ruth's hand-in-marriage and finds him in his study going through some Orienral artifacts with his giant Hindu servant, Kotah. Dr. Rand later informs Percy that Ruth has been abducted and he needs Percy to help rescue her.
Languages: No Language.
Countries:
United States of America
ProductionCompanies:
Robertson-Cole Pictures Corporation
Movie: Fools in the Dark
Top 6 Billed Cast
Patsy Ruth Miller
Ruth Rand
Matt Moore
Percy Schwartz / Percy Primrose
Bertram Grassby
Kotah - Dr. Rand's Servant
Charles Belcher
Dr. Rand
Tom Wilson
Diploma' - Percys Black Valet
John Steppling
Julius Schwartz
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Overview
Percy Schwartz is the son of a rich trash-can manufacturer but forgoes joining the company business in order to write thriller movie stories about bigger-than-life heroes, which he also aspires to be. Percy is deeply in love with Ruth Rand, the niece of Dr. Rand. a world-exploring scientist who majors in the mysteries of the Orient. The latter, after hearing Percy read one of his blood-curdling scenarios to the awe-struck Ruth, decides to test Percy character. Percy goes to ask Dr. Rand for Ruth's hand-in-marriage and finds him in his study going through some Orienral artifacts with his giant Hindu servant, Kotah. Dr. Rand later informs Percy that Ruth has been abducted and he needs Percy to help rescue her.
Release Date
1924-08-04
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7
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