A Gentleman of Leisure

Mar 1, 1915

0h 50m

★ 0.0

Overview

A young New York society man makes a bet that he can rob a house and get away without being caught by the police. Things turn out to be not as easy as they seem.

Genres

Comedy

Action

Crime

Production Companies

Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company

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Cast

Robert Edgar Willoughby Pitt

Wallace Eddinger

Sir Thomas Pitt

Sydney Deane

Lady Julia Blunt

Gertrude Kellar

Sir Spencer Dreever

Tom Forman

Molly Creedon

Carol Holloway

'Big Phil' Creedon

Fred Montague

Spike Mullins

William Elmer

Macklin, Pitt's Friend

Frederick Vroom

Willett, Pitt's Friend

Francis Tyler

Stutten, Pitt's Friend

Monroe Salisbury

Kate

Florence Dagmar

Ole Larsen

Lawrence Peyton

Hapless Henry Palfrey is patronised by his self-important chief clerk at work, ignored by restaurant waiters, conned by shady second-hand car salesmen, and, worst of all, endlessly wrong-footed by unspeakably rotten cad Raymond Delauney who has set his cap at April, new love of Palfrey's life. In desperation Henry enrolls at the College of Lifemanship to learn how to best such bounders and win the girl.

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