05 May 1928
Diamond Handcuffs
German actress Lena Malena starred in this lavishly budgeted and potentially intriguing melodrama about the influence of a valuable gem on its owners.
The Millionaire's Double
After his wife has run off with another man, New Yorker Bide Bennington decides to stay in Europe. After hearing of his wife's death years later, he returns home but finds it lonely there and heads West. While he is gone his house is robbed, and the leader of the crooks, Richard Glendo, leaves Bennington's coat and identification on an East River pier. The newspapers pick up on this and announce Bennington's "suicide." Since he is now officially deceased, Bennington decides to start life all over again -- but first he must foil a scheme by a gang of con artists, who have forced pretty Constance Brent to pose as Bennington's widow so that they can lay claim to his estate.
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Lionel Barrymore Bide Bennington
Evelyn Brent Constance Brent
Harry Northrup Richard Glendon
Louis Wolheim Bob Holloway
H.H. Pattee James Brent
John Smiley Stevens
John Raymond 'Kid' Burns
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