
03 Aug 1919

The Great Gamble
The Great Gamble is a 1919 movie serial.
Thanhouser's Masterpiece, With Cast of 1,000 American People, Featuring Jas. Cruze, Marguerite Snow and Harry Benham.
Zudora, not knowing she's an heiress to a $20 million fortune, lives with her uncle, a mystic and detective, who covets her inheritance. She wants to marry John Storm but her uncle is against it. However, the uncle makes a bargain; if Zudora can solve the next twenty mysteries brought to him, she can marry as she chooses. Episodes 1,2 and 8, plus another unidentified chapter, survive. The rest is believed to be lost.
Zudora
John Storm
Tom Hunt
Capt Radcliffe
Madame Duval
Mrs. Ramsey
Bruce
Mine Owner
03 Aug 1919
The Great Gamble is a 1919 movie serial.
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Buffalo Bill Cody battles a gang of outlaws secretly headed by an unscrupulous lawyer.
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Disaster seems imminent when scientists discover that the planet Mongo is about to crash into Earth. Luckily, heroic young Flash Gordon is on hand to lead an investigative mission into outer space and onto the speedily approaching planet. There, he and his best girl, Dale, who is along for the ride, learn that Ming, the devious ruler of Mongo, has purposely put the planet on a collision course with Earth, and only Flash can stop him.
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08 Apr 1918
An adventure serial released in 1918
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12 part movie serial where Clyde Beatty encounters obstacles and adventure on his way to rescue his damsel in distress.
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