The Lone Chance (1924)
Overview
Penniless inventor Jack Saunders, in search of a girl he loves, assumes the guilt for a murder in return for $20,000 and promise of a pardon at the end of a year. When the agreement is not fulfilled, he breaks jail and appears, demanding justice, before the governor, whose daughter, Margaret, committed the crime in self-defense. Saunders prevents her forced marriage to politician Burke, and Margaret, recognizing her lost love, clears his name and is herself exonerated.
Cast
John Gilbert
Jack Saunders
Evelyn Brent
Margaret West
John Miljan
Lew Brody
Edwin B. Tilton
Governor
Harry Todd
Burke
Frank Beal
Warden
Arthur Stuart Hull
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