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Thirty Years of a Gambler's Life (1913)
Short | Short, Drama

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Thirty Years of a Gambler's Life (1913)

Short | Short, Drama

George Notman is engaged to Marjorle Vincent, and the young people, though the marriage was arranged by their parents, are thoroughly devoted to one another. George has a friend, Warner, who beneath a polished exterior hides a deceitful ...See moreGeorge Notman is engaged to Marjorle Vincent, and the young people, though the marriage was arranged by their parents, are thoroughly devoted to one another. George has a friend, Warner, who beneath a polished exterior hides a deceitful and treacherous character. This is plainly shown when he attempts to make love to Marjorie, the fiancée of his friend. His advances are indignantly repulsed and the girl then learns to thoroughly distrust the man and to endeavor to oppose his influence with George. George's father makes his son a present of a large sum of money with which to purchase a splendid pearl necklace for Marjorie. Warner basely suggests that with this money it would be possible to make large sums gaming at the table and persuades him to venture it. The inevitable happens; the money is lost and George is confronted with the necessity of securing funds in some way to purchase his sweetheart her necklace. Warner suggests visiting a certain woman, known to the police as a "fence," who makes a practice of loaning money at usurious rates of interest. At her store they are shown a fine necklace which she is willing to sell and accept George's notes in payment. The necklace is bought and the notes given. Not long afterward at the wedding reception detectives call and ask for George's father. To him they exhibit his son's notes, which they have found in a raid upon the "fence." They ask to see Marjorie's necklace. At once they are able to identify it as one stolen from a jeweler not long before. The heartbroken father writes a check for the value of the necklace to save it from confiscation. Angered beyond all control at this proof of his son's folly, he upbraids him before the whole assembly, then falls in an apoplectic fit which not long after is the cause of his death. After his marriage George falls more and more under the sinister influence of Warner. The combined fortunes of his wife and himself are insufficient to sustain the drains made upon them by his gambling losses. Warner suggests an evil plan and again George assents to it. Finding a man who is a typical "sucker," they work an old confidence game upon him and persuade him that they can give him the names of the winning horses before a race. He loses, of course, and later by plying him with drink they are able to steal the rest of his money. The victim learns the name and address of George and calls upon his wife. He tells her of her husband's crime and threatens him with immediate arrest if the money is not returned at once. When George comes home and learns that his guilt has been found out, he attempts suicide. Moved by the misery of the unhappy wife the victim of the theft relents and for her sake promises to push the case no further. The years pass. Compelled by her poverty Marjorie has placed her little son in her uncle's care, since she is not able to give the boy a proper bringing up. George and David have taken a little country inn, where they prey upon the rural gamblers. Old beyond her time, Marjorie, still faithful to her marriage vows, does the work of a menial around the house. Her uncle, feeling that she should see her son again, gives him a large sum of money and sends him to her. How Warner and George, ignorant of the young man's identity, plan to rob him; how they are thwarted and David suffers the penalty for his many misdeeds, and how the father, sobered by his narrow escape from killing his own son, resolves to live a better life, end a most dramatic film. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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8 cast members

Name	Known for
Jean Hervé Georges de Germany Georges de Germany See fewer	Le secret du Camélia (1928)
Gabriel de Gravone Le fils de Georges de Germany Le fils de Georges de Germany See fewer	Rouletabille chez les bohémiens (1922)
Fernand Gravey Le petit garçon (as Fernand Mertens) Le petit garçon (as Fernand Mertens) See fewer	The Great Waltz (1938)
Léon Bernard Le comte de Germany Le comte de Germany See fewer	Les Misérables, Part 1: Jean Valjean (1913)
Jean Chameroy Dermont Dermont See fewer	Camille (1912)
Sarah Davids Amélie de Germany Amélie de Germany See fewer	A Modern Portia (1913)
Jules Mondos Actor Actor See fewer	Marion de Lorme (1918)
Georges Tréville Warner Warner See fewer	The Reigate Squires (1912)