The Fortune Hunter (1914 film)

{{short description|1914 film}}

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{{Infobox film

| name = The Fortune Hunter

| image =

| caption =

| director = Barry O'Neil

| producer = Siegmund Lubin

| writer = Clay M. Greene

| based_on = play The Fortune Hunter by Winchell Smith c.1909

| starring = William Elliott

| music =

| cinematography = Fred Chaston

| editing =

| studio = Lubin Manufacturing Company

| distributor = General Film Company

| released = {{Film date|1914|10}}

| runtime = 6 reels

| country = USA

| language = Silent..English titles

}}

The Fortune Hunter is a lost{{Cite web |date=2023-10-15 |title=The Library of Congress/FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: The Fortune Hunter |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231015094022/https://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.5434/default.html |access-date=2025-04-23 |website=web.archive.org}} 1914 silent comedy drama film directed by Barry O'Neil. It stars William Elliott and Ethel Clayton, and was produced by Lubin Manufacturing Company and distributed by General Film Company.{{Cite web |title=AFI{{!}}Catalog - The Fortune Hunter |url=https://catalog.afi.com/Film/16341-THE-FORTUNEHUNTER |access-date=2025-04-23 |website=catalog.afi.com}}[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/F/FortuneHunter1914.html The Fortune Hunter at silentera.com]

This play was an early stage success for Jack Barrymore in 1909.

Cast

  • William Elliott - Nat Duncan
  • George Soule Spencer - Harry Kellogg
  • Charles Brandt - Sam Graham
  • Ethel Clayton - Betty Graham
  • Betty Brice - Josie Lockwood (*as Rosetta Brice)
  • Joseph Kaufman - Roland Barrett
  • Florence Williams - Mrs. Lockwood
  • James Daly - Blinky Lockwood
  • Gaston Bell - Willie Bartlett
  • Ruth Bryan - Angie Smith
  • Frank Backus - Pete Willing
  • Clara Lambert - Mrs. Willing
  • Alan Quinn - Tracy Tenner
  • Ferdinand Tidmarsh - George Burnham
  • Edwin Barbour - Old Hi

References

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