''One Chance in a Million'' is a 1927 American silent crime film directed by

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and starring

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and

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. It was produced by the

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company

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Synopsis

After rescuing Ruth Torrence an attractive young heiress from a horse, Jerry Blaine realizes that her fiancée Robert Weston is a thief planning to rob her of her

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Cast

as Jerry Blaine *

as Ruth Torrence *

as Richard Torrence *

Henry Hebert Henry Herbert (c. 1879 – 20 February 1947) was an English film, stage actor and producer, who became well known in the United States. Biography Herbert appears to have commenced his early career with Ben Greet's Company, and with Sir Fran ...

as Robert Weston *

Eddie Borden Edgar Mason Borden (May 1, 1888 – June 30, 1955) was an American film actor who started his career in vaudeville as an acrobat and then successfully turned to comedy. Throughout the 1920s, he toured in the Keith, Orpheum and Pantages vaudev ...

as Horace Featherby *

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as Pat Drogan

References

Bibliography

* Connelly, Robert B. ''The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36, Volume 40, Issue 2''. December Press, 1998. * Munden, Kenneth White. ''The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1''. University of California Press, 1997.

External links

* 1927 films 1927 crime films American silent feature films American crime films Films directed by Noel M. Smith American black-and-white films Gotham Pictures films 1920s English-language films 1920s American films {{1920s-US-film-stub