Beating the Game (1921 crime film)

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Beating the Game
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Directed by Victor Schertzinger
Written by Charles Kenyon
Produced by Samuel Goldwyn
Starring
Cinematography Ernest Miller
Production
company
Distributed byGoldwyn Distributing
Release date
  • September 1921 (1921-09)
Running time
6 reels
CountryUnited States
LanguagesSilent
English intertitles

Beating the Game is a 1921 American silent crime film directed by Victor Schertzinger and starring Tom Moore, Hazel Daly and DeWitt Jennings. [1]

Contents

The film's sets were designed by the art director Cedric Gibbons.

Plot

Cast

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References

  1. Parish & Pitts p.336

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