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A Desperate Chance

Jul 1, 1925

0h 50m

★ 10.0

Overview

Girl's father who is in sore financial straits because of a corporation man is aided by stranger who reveals that his father was ruined same way by the same person. When this man is found dead suspicion falls on girl's father but the employer of murdered man confesses.

Genres

Western

Production Companies

Larry Wheeler Productions

Rayart Pictures Corporation

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Cast

Dick Sutherland

Bob Reeves

Beth Forman

Ione Reed

George Peters (as Charles Whittaker)

Slim Whitaker

Fred Forman

Lafe McKee

Sheriff

Frank Ellis

Tommy Grimes

Barney Furey

Frank Benson

Leon De La Mothe

Bulldog Prentice (as Lew O'Connor)

L.J. O'Connor

Elsie Prentice

Gypsy Clarke

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