Putting One Over

Putting One Over

Putting One Over

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Putting One Over

1919

0h 50m

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Drama

Overview

When a train crash kills Horace Barney, the heir to a fortune that his doctors and guardians were planning to extort the unscrupulous trio quickly substitute his double Jack Trevor who by chance was on the same locomotive but knocked unconscious. Once awakened, Jack realizes the duplicity but plays along to try and foil the plot and save the estate for Barney’s cousin Helen who is the true heir and with whom he has fallen in love.

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10 members

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George Walsh

Horace Barney

George Walsh

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Edith Stockton

Helen Townsend

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Ralph J. Locke

Maurice Claypool

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Frank Beamish

Thomas Farrel

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Robert Lee Keeling

Dr. John Wallace

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Matthew Betz

Giles

Matthew Betz

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John T. Dillon

Dobbs

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Elizabeth Garrison

Mrs. Townsend

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Marcia Harris

Mrs. Eleanor Davies

Marcia Harris

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Henry Hallam

Johnny Thomkins

Henry Hallam

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