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Winds of Chance
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Wikipedia article
'Winds of Chance' is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by Frank Lloyd and produced and released by First National Pictures.[http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=13357 The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: 'Winds of Chance']
Plot
As described in a film magazine reviews, when Pierce Phillips finds he has no money to meet the governments requirements in seeking gold, he works as a packer of supplies for other adventure seekers. He meets and falls in love with the Countess Courteau. When he asks her to be his wife, he finds she has a husband. He joins a traveling show, one member of which, Laure, has fallen in love with him. She becomes hostile when he pays his attentions to Rouletta, daughter of the gambler. Laure conspires with Count Courteau, who has returned and who now believes that Phillips is his wifes lover. Phillips then works in the trading post, weighing the gold dust of the miners. He is charged with short-changing Courteau and arrested. The Countess pretends reconciliation with her husband in order to get the proof of Phillips innocence and threatens to expose him and have him driven out unless he confesses to the police. On his way to do so he is killed by one of the McCaskeys, who flee across the border. Poleon Doret, who has befriended Phillips, pursues with a police officer, and captures one of the brothers, proving Phillips innocence of the charge of murder which had been placed against him. Poleon and Rouletta, whom he had also befriended, get married, leaving the way open for Phillips and the Countess to follow their example.
Cast
Preservation
Print of 'Winds of Chance' are located at the UCLA Film and Television Archives, George Eastman House, and National Archives of Canada (at Ottawa).[http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.1487/default.html The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: 'Winds of Chance'][http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/W/WindsOfChance1925.html Progressive Silent Film List: 'Winds of Chance'] at silentera.com
See also
*'Trail of '98' (1928)
References
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