Flirting with Fate (1916 film)
1916 film by Christy Cabanne
- July 9, 1916 (1916-07-09)
Running time
50 minutes (USA)
Flirting with Fate is a 1916 American film directed by Christy Cabanne and starring Douglas Fairbanks. It was produced by the Fine Arts Film Company and distributed by Triangle Film Corporation.[1][2]
Synopsis
In a desperate, but not-too-courageous, attempt to end his life, a man hires a murderer to do the job for him. Soon, though, things are looking better and he must now avoid the hit.
Cast
- Douglas Fairbanks as Augy Holliday
- W.E. Lawrence as Harry, Augy's Friend
- Jewel Carmen as Gladys, the Girl
- Dorothy Haydel as Phyllis, Her Chum
- George Beranger as Automatic Joe
- J.P. McCarty as The Detective
See also
- Tribulations of a Chinaman in China (novel by Jules Verne, 1879)
- The Man in Search of His Murderer (1931)
- The Whistler (1944)
- You Only Live Once (1952)
- Five Days (1954)
- Up to His Ears (1965)
- Tulips (1981)
- I Hired a Contract Killer (1990)
- Bulworth (1998)
- Shut Up and Shoot Me (2005)
References
External links
- Flirting with Fate at IMDb
- synopsis at AllMovie
- Flirting with Fate is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive
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Films directed by Christy Cabanne
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- The Great Leap; Until Death Do Us Part (1914)
- The Life of General Villa (1914)
- Martyrs of the Alamo (1915)
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- The Absentee (1915)
- Double Trouble (1915)
- The Lost House (1915)
- The Failure (1915)
- The Outlaw's Revenge (1915)
- The Lamb (1915)
- Daphne and the Pirate (1916)
- Sold for Marriage (1916)
- Diane of the Follies (1916)
- The Flying Torpedo (1916)
- Reggie Mixes In (1916)
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- Miss Robinson Crusoe (1916)
- National Red Cross Pageant (1917)
- Draft 258 (1917)
- One of Many (1917)
- The Slacker (1917)
- Cyclone Higgins, D.D. (1917)
- The Mayor of Filbert (1918)
- The Pest (1919)
- God's Outlaw (1919)
- Fighting Through (1919)
- The Beloved Cheater (1919)
- A Regular Fellow (1919)
- Life's Twist (1920)
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- Burnt Wings (1920)
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- The Barricade (1921)
- What's a Wife Worth? (1921)
- Live and Let Live (1921)
- At the Stage Door (1921)
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- Youth for Sale (1924)
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- The Sixth Commandment (1924)
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- Is Love Everything? (1925)
- The Midshipman (1925)
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- The Red-Haired Alibi (1932)
- Western Limited (1932)
- The Unwritten Law (1932)
- The Midnight Patrol (1932)
- Hotel Continental (1932)
- The World Gone Mad (1932)
- Daring Daughters (1933)
- Midshipman Jack (1933)
- When Strangers Meet (1933)
- Money Means Nothing (1934)
- Jane Eyre (1934)
- A Girl of the Limberlost (1934)
- Storm Over the Andes (1934)
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- Another Face (1935)
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- The Keeper of the Bees (1935)
- Rendezvous at Midnight (1935)
- The Last Outlaw (1936)
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- Don't Tell the Wife (1936)
- The Outcasts of Poker Flat (1937)
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- You Can't Beat Love (1937)
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- Man from Montreal (1939)
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- Black Diamonds (1940)
- Danger on Wheels (1940)
- Hot Steel (1940)
- Alias the Deacon (1940)
- The Devil's Pipeline (1940)
- Scattergood Baines (1941)
- Scattergood Meets Broadway (1941)
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- Drums of the Congo (1942)
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- Timber (1942)
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- Sensation Hunters (1945)
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- Scared to Death (1947)
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