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Hands Down
(1918) United States of America
B&W : Five reels
Directed by Rupert Julian

Cast: Monroe Salisbury [‘Dago Sam’], W.H. Bainbridge [Dan Stuyvesant], Ruth Clifford [Hilda Stuyvesant], Rupert Julian [Tom Flynn], Rita Pickering [Marina], Al Filson [Jack Dedlow]

Bluebird Photoplays, Incorporated, production; distributed by Bluebird Photoplays, Incorporated, through The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated. / From a screen story by Elliott J. Clawson. Cinematography by Steve Rounds. / © 28 January 1918 by Bluebird Photoplays, Incorporated [LP12002]. Released 11 February 1918. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The film’s working title may have been The Highest Card.

Drama: Western.

Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.1755.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 5 October 2009.

References: AFI-F1 n. F1.1755; Hirschhorn-Universal p. 30 : ClasIm-240 p. 46.