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The Wager

The Wager

NOV 13, 1916 · 50 MIN · DIR. GEORGE D. BAKER

DramaCrime

A $5,000 wager is made between two prominent jewelers, Mr. Thorpe and Mr. Chandler, as to whether their most valuable jewels can be stolen. Thorpe, seeking to stack the odds in his favor, asks Police Commissioner James Stone, a business crony, to enlist the help of Diamond Daisy, a jewel thief who is trying to go straight. Posing as a rich heiress, she asks Mr. Thorpe to accompany her to show her father an expensive item of jewelry. Instead, Mr. Thorpe is detained in an insane asylum by a doctor who has been led to believe that Thorpe is Daisy's insane husband. Daisy absconds with the jewels, but a vindictive detective, who has been following Daisy, thinks the heist is for real and tries to arrest her. Eventually the commissioner intervenes and all ends well.

Cast

  • Emily Stevens

    Emily Stevens

    Diamond Daisy Doyle

  • Frank Currier

    Frank Currier

    A.E. Thorpe

  • Charles Bowser

    Charles Bowser

    J.S. Chandler

  • Lyster Chambers

    Slipper Jim

  • Hugh Jeffrey

    Duggan

  • Daniel Jarrett

    Commissioner James Stone

  • Harry Mayo

    Secretary to Police Commissioner

Crew

Screenplay

George D. Baker

Story

George D. Baker