''The Quitter'' is a 1916 American silent

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film directed by Charles Horan and starring

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. It was produced by

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and distributed by

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. A copy is reportedly held at

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, now called EYE Film Institute at Amsterdam.

Cast

as "Happy" Jack Lewis * Marguerite Skirvin as Glad Mason * Paul Everton as W. E. Willet * Charles Prince as "Big" Bill McFarland * Julius D. Cowles as Seth Moore * Edward Brennan as Peter Condon * Saagar Bains as himself

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* * 1916 films 1916 Western (genre) films American black-and-white films Metro Pictures films Silent American Western (genre) films 1910s American films 1910s English-language films {{silent-film-stub

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