The Shell GameMovie
New York confidence man "Silk" Wilkins ingratiates himself with millionaire Lawrence Gray, knowing Gray’s wife and daughter Zelda were lost in a flood eighteen years earlier. After promising to find Gray's daughter, Silk returns to his boardinghouse, where he finds Alice Sheldon, broke and about to commit suicide. Silk convinces Alice to pose as Zelda Gray and then notifies Lawrence via a note placed in an almond shell that he has found the lost daughter. Lawrence treats Alice so kindly that when Silk demands payment from her on Christmas morning, she refuses. Lawrence, who has overheard the conversation, enters and laughingly reveals that he had known of the frame-up all along. Grateful to Silk for finding him a wife, Lawrence writes the confidence man a large check.
About The Shell Game
The Shell Game is a 1918 drama movie directed by George D. Baker.
The production information lists a runtime of 50m, production credits from United States of America, an original language code of EN.
The credited cast includes Joseph Kilgour, Henry Kolker, Emmy Wehlen, Ricca Allen. The synopsis above summarizes the central premise without adding details beyond the available title information.
