The Fool's Game (1916)
- Directed by
- Robert Broadwell
- Genre
- silent film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 20 min
- Rating
- 9.0 of 10 from 1 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A poor woman marries a wealthy man for money while secretly seeing her true love. When the husband finds out, he chains the lovers together and forces them to live in isolation. The arrangement turns sour as they grow to hate each other, and the woman eventually realizes her mistake and chooses to stay with her husband.
silentdramatictenseromanticmelodramaticbleakmoralisticclaustrophobic
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