THE WONDERFUL CHANCE
R.: George Archainbaud. S.: H.H. Van Loan. Sc.: Mary Murillo, Melville Hammett. In.: Eugene O’Brien (Swagger Barlow/Lord Birmingham), Tom Blake (Red Dugan), Rudolph de Valentino (Joe Klingsby), Joe Flanagan (Haggerty), Martha Mansfield (Peggy Winton), Warren Cook (Parker Winton). P.: Selznick Pictures Inc. D.: Select Pictures Corp. L.: 580m D.: 65’ a 19 f/s, 16mm
Film Notes
Before the film and the role which will change his life, Rudy has time for another small time gangster role in The Wonderful Chance by George Archainbaud. A curious film which begins as if it were a gangster movie, describing the low traffickings and missed coups of criminals just out of Sing Sing; and playing on an exchange of roles between a gang leader and a lord, finishes by crowning a love story in high society style. Rudolph de Valentino, as in the credits, is only a sideline small-time swindler.