Wheel of Chance

June. 17,1928      
Rating:
5.5
Trailer Synopsis Cast

A Russian family, the Turkeltaubs, emigrates to the US before the Communist revolution that overthrew the Czar. One of their twin sons, Schulke, disappears and is believed dead before they leave. After they settle into their new country, the family does well: the surviving twin, Nicholai, becomes a crusading District Attorney. One of the cases he is assigned to prosecute is that of small-time gangster Jacob Talinef, who has killed a former girlfriend of Nicholai's. Further investigation of the case, though, reveals a shocking secret.

Richard Barthelmess as  Nicolai Turkeltaub
Bodil Rosing as  Sara Turkeltaub
Warner Oland as  Mosher Turkeltaub
Anne Schaefer as  Hanscha Talinef
Lina Basquette as  Ada Berkowitz
Margaret Livingston as  Josie Drew

Reviews

SnoReptilePlenty
1928/06/17

Memorable, crazy movie

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Tobias Burrows
1928/06/18

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

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Marva
1928/06/19

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

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Geraldine
1928/06/20

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

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