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The Best of Luck

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The Best of Luck
Directed byRay C. Smallwood
Written byArthur Collins (play)
Henry Hamilton (play)
Cecil Raleigh (play)
Albert S. Le Vino
StarringKathryn Adams
Jack Holt
Lila Leslie
CinematographyHarold Wenstrom
Production
company
Screen Classics
Distributed byMetro Pictures
Release date
July 1920
Running time
6 reels
CountryUnited States
LanguagesSilent
English intertitles

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.

Cast

  • Kathryn Adams as Leslie MacLeod
  • Jack Holt as Kenneth, Lord Glenayr
  • Lila Leslie as Lady Blanche Westamere
  • Fred Malatesta as Lanzana
  • Frances Raymond as The Countess of Strathcaird
  • Emmett King as Blake, an American attorney
  • Robert Dunbar as The General
  • Effie Conley as Maid
  • John Underhill as The Footman

References

  1. ^ Goble p.687

Bibliography

  • Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.