Flirting with Fate
About Flirting with Fate
Broke artist Augy Holliday paints in the park, is snubbed by a girl, and paints her from memory. His friend Harry recognizes society girl Gladys and stakes Augy to a suit so he can meet her. Her aunt rejects him. Augy hires a killer, Automatic Joe, to murder him. His luck turns with Gladys, and he spends the rest of the picture staying ahead of the man he hired. A detective is also on Joe.
Cast & crew
More about Flirting with Fate
Christy Cabanne directed. Robert M. Baker wrote the story. Triangle distributed the five-reel Fine Arts production. Alternate title: The Assassin. Chicago opening June 25, 1916, at the Strand; New York the week of June 26. One release date given for the general issue is July 9, 1916.
Themes
Making
Fairbanks plays the artist who orders his own murder and then has to outrun the contract, the chase built on the same physical business as his other Triangle comedies.
Look
William E. Fildew was the cameraman.
Preservation
A print is on the Internet Archive, running 57 minutes.
Notes
- Douglas Fairbanks plays Augy. Jewel Carmen is Gladys. George Beranger is Automatic Joe. W. E. Lawrence is Harry.
- Some American listings give the running time as 50 minutes. An Internet Archive copy runs 57 minutes 10 seconds.
Scenes
- Augy paints Gladys from memory after she walks off in the park.
- He tries to cancel Automatic Joe once he wants to live.
Also available
- Internet Archive (Flirting_with_Fate)
