Checkers

Checkers

Checkers

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Checkers

1919

1h 10m

9.0(1 votes)

Adventure

Comedy

Overview

Edward Campbell, known as Checkers, is a racetrack tout. Determined to reform himself, he foreswears gambling, but must take it up once more in order to save someone he loves from disaster.

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Production Companies

Fox Film Corporation

Cast & Crew

8 members

Acting

Thomas Carrigan

Checkers (as Thomas J. Carrigan)

Thomas Carrigan

Acting

Jean Acker

Pert Barlow

Jean Acker

Acting

Robert Elliott

Kendal

Robert Elliott

Acting

Tammany Young

Push Miller

Tammany Young

Acting

Bertram Marburgh

Judge Marlow

Bertram Marburgh

Directing

Edward Sedgwick

Pete

Edward Sedgwick

Acting

Ellen Cassidy

Alva Romaine (as Ellenn Cassity)

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Julien Beaubien

Unknown Role

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