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The Chip Board Archive 21

NCR: dice, movies, lobby card, odd plot

I won this movie lobby card at auction. Interesting story, too:

RED DICE LC '26 Rod La Rocque gambles his life to get money to maintain his lifestyle!

Story: Red Dice, the 1926 William K. Howard silent gambling insurance fraud romantic murder crime melodrama (a wacky story of a man who offers to kill himself at a future date to collect on an insurance policy, if he can have money now in return for the proceeds of the policy!; he rolls a pair of dice, and because they come up with a 2 and a 4, he agrees to kill himself on December 24, but the person he makes the deal with wants him to be married so that the wife can inherit the money and turn it over to him, but during the time he is awaiting the date to kill himself, he falls in love with the woman, and refuses to go through with the deal) starring Rod La Rocque, Marguerite De La Motte, Ray Hallor, Gustav von Seyffertitz, and George Cooper. Note that Cecil B. DeMille is prominently billed on the movie paper, but in the IMDb, it says that he was solely the "presenter", which would mean that he introduced the movie in some fashion, but was not actually connected with it!

Robert


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