''A Game of Wits'' is a 1917 American silent

comedy-drama film Comedy drama, also known by the portmanteau ''dramedy'', is a genre of dramatic works that combines elements of comedy and drama. The modern, scripted-television examples tend to have more humorous bits than simple comic relief seen in a typical ...

directed by Henry King and starring Gail Kane, George Periolat, and

Spottiswoode Aitken Frank Spottiswoode Aitken (16 April 1868 – 26 February 1933) was a Scottish-American actor of the silent era. He played Dr. Cameron in D. W. Griffith's epic drama ''The Birth of a Nation''. Early years Aitken was born 16 April 1868 in Edinb ...

.''Guide to the Silent Years of American Cinema'', p. 166

Cast

* Gail Kane as Jeannette Browning * George Periolat as Cyrus Browning *

as Silas Stone *

Lew Cody Lew Cody (born Louis Joseph Côté; February 22, 1884 – May 31, 1934) was an American stage and film actor whose career spanned the silent film and early sound film age. He gained notoriety in the late 1910s for playing "male vamps" in films ...

as Larry Caldwell

References

Bibliography

* Donald W. McCaffrey & Christopher P. Jacobs. ''Guide to the Silent Years of American Cinema''. Greenwood Publishing, 1999.

External links

* 1917 films 1917 comedy-drama films Films directed by Henry King American silent feature films 1910s English-language films American black-and-white films 1910s American films Silent American comedy-drama films English-language comedy-drama films {{silent-comedy-drama-film-stub