Adventure ·Comedy · United States of America · 1919 · 1h 10m

Checkers

Director

Cast

Thomas Carrigan as Checkers (as Thomas J. Carrigan) Jean Acker as Pert Barlow Robert Elliott as Kendal Tammany Young as Push Miller Bertram Marburgh as Judge Marlow Edward Sedgwick as Pete

Crew

Adrian Johnson — Writer Henry Martyn Blossom — Novel

Synopsis

Edward Campbell, known as Checkers, is a racetrack tout. Determined to reform himself, he foreswears gambling, but must take it up once more in order to save someone he loves from disaster.

Mood & Themes

1937 fox vault fire

Key Collaborators

Richard Stanton Director Adrian Johnson Writer Henry Martyn Blossom Novel

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