The Best of Luck

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The Best of Luck
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Directed by Ray C. Smallwood
Written by
Starring
Cinematography Harold Wenstrom
Production
company
Screen Classics
Distributed by Metro Pictures
Release date
  • July 1920 (1920-07)
Running time
6 reels
CountryUnited States
Languages

The Best of Luck is a 1920 American silent drama film directed by Ray C. Smallwood and starring Kathryn Adams, Jack Holt and Lila Leslie. It was adapted from a British play which had been a hit in the West End. [1] A young American woman moves to Scotland and purchases an ancestral castle. She is pursued by two suitors, one a British nobleman and the other an underhand Spaniard.

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  1. Goble p.687

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