Plots(1)
The plot of Flirting With Fate probably wasn't new in 1916, and it certainly wouldn't disappear with this film. Douglas Fairbanks Sr. plays a struggling artist whose heart is broken when his sweetheart Jewel Carmen is promised in marriage to someone else. The woebegone Fairbanks decides he has nothing left to live for, but he isn't up to committing suicide; thus, he hires a professional killer to do the deed. When Fairbanks inherits a million dollars, Carmen's parents suddenly decide that he's worthy of their daughter's hand. The trick now is to call off the hired assassin--who is nowhere to be found! (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
![Douglas Fairbanks](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/267/267974_57c5da.jpg)
Douglas Fairbanks
USA
Best movies:
![Jewel Carmen](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/739/159739545_f34ec4.jpg)
Jewel Carmen
USA
Best movies:
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Through the Ages (1916)
The Half-Breed (1916)
![George Beranger](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/234/161234281_9358e4.jpg)
George Beranger
Australia
Best movies:
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Through the Ages (1916)
The Big Parade (1925)
Bullets or Ballots (1936)
Howard Gaye
Best movies:
The Birth of a Nation (1915)
William E. Lawrence
USA
Best movies:
It's a Wonderful World (1939)
Dead Reckoning (1947)
The Whole Town's Talking (1935)
Dorothy Haydel
USA
Lillian Langdon
USA
Best movies:
Wilbur Higby
USA
Best movies:
True Heart Susie (1919)
Broken Blossoms (1919)
J. P. McCarty
USA