Drama · United States of America · 1914 · 20m

The Quack

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Director
Wilbert Melville
Cast
Lee Shumway as James McDonald aka Slim Jim aka Dr. Reed Velma Whitman as Mary McDonald - Jim's Wife William Dennis as Three-Card Burke George Routh as 'Doc' Jones William Parsons as Detective Simpson Charles Brandt as Harold - McDonald's Child
Crew
Wilbert Melville — Writer
Synopsis

James MacDonald, familiarly known as "Slim Jim," who prefers to make a livelihood by stealth rather than by honest endeavor, leaves his wife and young son one evening, and with the assistance of a "pal" succeeds in fleecing a stranger at "Three Card Monte" for a considerable sum.

Mood & Themes
lost film
Key Collaborators
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