The Car of Chance

Jul 9, 1917

0h 50m

★ 0.0

Overview

In his will, Mr. Baird leaves his son Arnold just one seven-passenger auto and a hundred dollars to keep it filled up and in good repair. When James Bennett hears of this, he insists that Baird do something to make his fortune before he can marry his daughter Ruth. Bennett begins by using the car to start a jitney-bus line. This is not terribly impressive to Bennett -- who owns a trolley company -- and he decides he would rather see Ruth married to his controller, William Mott-Smith.

Genres

Comedy

Drama

Production Companies

Bluebird Photoplays

Universal Film Manufacturing Company

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Cast

Arnold Baird

Franklyn Farnum

Ruth Rennett

Agnes Vernon

Mrs. Bennett

Helen Wright

Wanda Heimstone

Molly Malone

James Bennett

Mark Fenton

William Mott Smith

H.J. Bennett

Israel Heimstone

Walter Belasco

Tom Nolan

Harry De More

A film adaptation (funded by Ken Togo) based on an expose book by a person involved in the Japanese entertainment industry of the time. The book describes among other things the drug-fueled parties, orgies of the entertainment business and what some celebrities like Johnny Kitagawa among others were allegedly up to in their free time. Basically giving an open-book about the secrets of the entertainment-world. The film adapts and portrays some of the shocking scenes of this book, focussing more on the gay-aspect of the expose.

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