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The Reckless Age

192476 minUnited States
ComedyDrama

Synopsis

An insurance investigator must make sure an aristocrat's marriage to a wealthy woman proceeds as planned. He promptly falls in love with the bride himself. Rival claims to the groom's title and threats from an earlier relationship make protecting the wedding a task increasingly at odds with his own wishes.

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No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs
75:58
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No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

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Wikimedia Commons · Creator:Harry A. Pollard · Public domain

Cast

DirectorsHarry A. Pollard

Inspirations

Reginald Denny stars in this adaptation of Earl Derr Biggers's Love Insurance. The unusual policy turns romantic duty into a professional assignment with a financial cost for failure.

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