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The Fortune Hunter
(1920) United States of America
B&W : Seven reels
Directed by Tom Terriss

Cast: Earle Williams [Nathaniel Dunham], Jean Paige (Betty Graham], Van Dyke Brooke [Sam Graham], Nancy Lee [Josie Lockwood], William Holden [Banker Lockwood], Charles Trowbridge [Harry Kellogg], Frank Norcross [Sheriff Pete Willing], Billy Hoover [Tracey], Louise Lee [Angie], Earl Metcalfe [Roland Barnett]

The Vitagraph Company of America production; distributed by The Vitagraph Company of America [Special Production]. / Scenario by Graham Baker, from the play The Fortune Hunter by Winchell Smith. Cinematography by Tom Malloy. Film editor, Don Bartlett. Intertitles written by Don Bartlett. Presented by Albert E. Smith. / © 16 January 1920 by The Vitagraph Company of America [LP14648]. Released February 1920. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The play was previously filmed as The Fortune Hunter (1914). The play was subsequently filmed as The Fortune Hunter (1927).

Comedy.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 26 February 2023.

References: Website-AFI.