The Shell Game
04/03/1918
New York confidence man "Silk" Wilkins ingratiates himself with millionaire Lawrence Gray, knowing Gray’s wife and daughter Zelda were lost in a flood eighteen years earlier. After promising to find Gray's daughter, Silk returns to his boardinghouse, where he finds Alice Sheldon, broke and about to commit suicide. Silk convinces Alice to pose as Zelda Gray and then notifies Lawrence via a note placed in an almond shell that he has found the lost daughter. Lawrence treats Alice so kindly that when Silk demands payment from her on Christmas morning, she refuses. Lawrence, who has overheard the conversation, enters and laughingly reveals that he had known of the frame-up all along. Grateful to Silk for finding him a wife, Lawrence writes the confidence man a large check.
Movie Information
Joseph Kilgour
as 'Silk' Wilkins
Henry Kolker
as Lawrence Gray
Emmy Wehlen
as Zlice Sheldon
Ricca Allen
as Landlady
Donald MacBride
as Vocal Teacher
Fanny Cogan
as Mrs. Wentworth
Hugh Jeffrey
as Headwaiter
Richard Thornton
as Hotel Manager
Clarence Heritage
as The Maestro
