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A Bid for Fortune (1917)

A Bid for Fortune poster
Directed by
Sidney Morgan
Genre
silent film, crime film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 24m
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young man gets involved in a criminal scheme that threatens a woman he cares about. He tries to stop the plot before it is too late.

old-fashionedsuspensefulbriskformulaicmelodramaticlight suspense

What happens

A Bid for Fortune is a 1917 British silent crime film directed by Sidney Morgan and starring A. Harding Steerman, Violet Graham and Sydney Vautier. It is based on Guy Boothby's novel of the same name (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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