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The Fortune Hunter
(1914) United States of America
B&W : Six reels
Directed by Barry O’Neil

Cast: William Elliott [Nat Duncan], George Soule Spencer [Harry Kellogg], Charles Brandt [Sam Graham], Ethel Clayton [Betty Graham], Rosetta Brice (Josie Lockwood], Joseph Kaufman [Roland Barrett], Florence Williams [Mrs. Lockwood], James Daly [Blinky Lockwood], Gaston Bell [Willie Bartlett], Ruth Bryan [Angie Smith], Frank Backus [Pete Willing], Clara Lambert [Mrs. Willing], Ferdinand Tidmarsh [George Burnham], Alen Quinn [Tracy Tenner], Edwin Barbour [Old Hi], Richard Wangermann [Watty, the tailor], Bernard Siegel [Mr. Lee], Mrs. George W. Walters [Mrs. Whitmarsh]

Lubin Manufacturing Company production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated [Special Features Department]. / Scenario by Clay M. Greene, from the play The Fortune Hunter by Winchell Smith. Cinematography by Fred Chaston. / © 17 September 1914 by Lubin Manufacturing Company [LU3372]. Released October 1914. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The play was subsequently filmed as The Fortune Hunter (1920).

Comedy.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 23 February 2012.

References: Tarbox-Lost p. 192 : Website-AFI.