Sink or Swim

Sink or Swim

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Sink or Swim

1920

0h 36m

9.0(1 votes)

Comedy

Overview

A silent comedy Sink or Swim edited from the 1917 film The Yankee Way (1917)

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Production Companies

Fox Film Corporation

Cast & Crew

9 members

Acting

George Walsh

Dick Mason

George Walsh

Acting

Enid Markey

Princess Alexia

Enid Markey

Acting

Joseph J. Dowling

Col. Mason

Joseph J. Dowling

Acting

Charles Edler

'Coyote' Jones

No Image

Acting

James O'Shea

James O'Malley

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Directing

Edward Sedgwick

Robert Gilette

Edward Sedgwick

Acting

Fritz von Hardenberg

Baron Maravitch

No Image

Acting

Edward Cecil

Count Vortsky

No Image

Acting

Tom Wilson

George Washington Brown

Tom Wilson

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