The Turn of the Wheel

September. 01,1918

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Drama Mystery Romance

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While visiting Monte Carlo with her aunt, Rosalie Dean meets a young man, Maxfield Gray who is ready to kill himself because of his losses at the roulette wheel. She stops him from doing so, and lends him some money to win back what he's lost. He does, but they're only happy for a short while before Max is arrested for the murder of his ex-wife in the States.

Geraldine Farrar as Rosalie Dean

Herbert Rawlinson as Maxfield Grey

Percy Marmont as Frank Grey

Violet Heming as Bertha Grey

Maude Turner Gordon as Rosalie's Aunt

Clarence Handyside as American Consul

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Reviews

Scanialara

1918/09/01

You won't be disappointed!

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Stometer

1918/09/02

Save your money for something good and enjoyable

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Ella-May O'Brien

1918/09/03

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

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Juana

1918/09/04

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

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