Drama · United States of America · 1920 · 50m

What Would You Do

What Would You Do poster
Director
Edmund Lawrence
Cast
Madlaine Traverse as Claudia Chilson George A. McDaniel as Hugh Chilson (as George McDaniel) Frank Elliott as Curtis Brainerd Charles K. French as Robert Brainerd Lenore Lynard as Lily Brainerd Bud Geary as Tom Holbrook
Crew
Walter Williams — Director of Photography Denison Clift — Screenplay Denison Clift — Story
Synopsis

Released in January 1920, this silent romantic love triangle crime melodrama, about a man who sells fake stock and fakes his suicide. His wife remarries, but her new husband suffers a crippling accident, and wants to die, so she gives him a gun. The day he succeeds, her first husband returns, having made a fortune, and they are united.

Mood & Themes
suicidefraudbigamyfugitive
Key Collaborators
Edmund Lawrence Director Walter Williams Director of Photography Denison Clift Screenplay Denison Clift Story
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