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Dice of Destiny
(1920) United States of America
B&W : Five reels
Directed by Henry King

Cast: H.B. Warner [Jimmy Doyle], Lillian Rich [Nancy Preston], Howard Davis [Dave Montheith], Harvey Clark [Joe Caffey], J.P. Lockney [Bill Preston], Claude Peyton [James Tierney], Frederick Huntley [‘Gloomy’ Cole], Rosemary Theby [Agnes]

Jesse D. Hampton Productions production; distributed by Pathé Exchange, Incorporated. / Produced by Jesse D. Hampton. Scenario by Fred Myton, from the novel The People Against Nancy Preston by John A. Moroso. Assistant director, Eliot Howe. Cinematography by Victor Milner. Presented by Jesse D. Hampton. / © 10 November 1920 by Pathé Exchange, Incorporated [LU15784]. Released 5 December 1920. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Working title: Going Straight. The novel was subsequently filmed as The People vs. Nancy Preston (1925).

Drama: Crime.

Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.1040.

Survival status: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 14 August 2008.

References: AFI-F1 n. F1.1040; Weaver-Twenty p. 452.