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Fool's Gold

Name: Fool's Gold
Director: Laurence Trimble
Released: 1919
Rating: 4.6
Cast: Florence Turner, Harry Hyde, Elizabeth Du Barry Gill, Mlle. Marguerite Serruys, Francis Joyner

1919Laurence TrimbleIMDb: 4.6/10

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Director

Laurence Trimble

Writers

M.A. Miller

Country

United States

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Fool's Gold Review: Silent Era Western Melodrama & Mining Romance | 1919 Film Analysis

Beneath the Gilded Surface: Fool's Gold's Complex Veins The American West in Fool's Gold isn't merely backdrop—it's a geological character. Director Harry Hyde weaponizes the landscape's desolate grandeur, framing prospectors as ants scrambling across primordial rock formations that seem to sneer at human avari...

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Fool's Gold FAQ

The movie Fool's Gold was directed by Laurence Trimble.

Fool's Gold was released in the year 1919.

Fool's Gold has an IMDb rating of 4.6 out of 10.

Fool's Gold is a movie from United States.

Fool's Gold features .

The screenplay for Fool's Gold was written by M.A. Miller.

If you enjoy Fool's Gold, you might also like Through the Valley of Shadows (1914), Alone in London (1915), Grim Justice (1916), The Murdoch Trial (1914).

Yes, Fool's Gold (1919) is featured in the Dbcult archive as a curated cult cinema title.

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Summary

In the dust-choked valleys of the American West, gold fever ignites more than mineral lust when Marshall Strong and John Moore—mining partners bound by ambition yet divided by passion—both fix their desires on schoolmarm Constance Harvey. Moore's serpentine manipulation convinces Constance that Strong harbors affection elsewhere, compelling her into a hollow marriage just as their mine strikes fortune. When Moore perishes violently in a saloon altercation, Strong becomes the quarry of injustice, fleeing into exile after Lilas Niles, a squatter's avaricious daughter, fabricates Constance's betrayal. Embittered, Strong weds Lilas only to reemerge years later as Mark Smith, a monied mine baron whose empire employs Constance's son David—smitten with Strong's daughter Nancy. Decades of resentment shatter when David becomes trapped in an infernal mine shaft, forcing Strong to confront his buried past in a smoke-choked race against time where redemption demands not gold, but sacrifice.

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Marshall Strong and John Moore, partners in a western gold mine, both fall in love with schoolteacher Constance Harvey, but she marries Moore, even though she is attracted to the shy Strong, because Moore convinces her that Strong loves someone else. After they strike ore, Moore is killed in a barroom brawl and Strong is accused of murder. He hides out and sends for Constance, but when Lilas Niles, a squatter's daughter who wants Strong's money, deceitfully tells him that Constance is sending the police, Strong leaves, embittered, and marries Lilas. Years later, Strong, now known as Mark Smith, is a wealthy mine owner. Constance lives with her son David who loves Strong's daughter Nancy and works in Strong's mine. After Strong refuses demands for safety precautions, an explosion traps David underground. When Strong discovers that David is Constance's son, he rushes into the burning mine to save him. Strong then promises safer conditions, and David marries Nancy.

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" Beneath the Gilded Surface: Fool's Gold's Complex Veins The American West in Fool's Gold isn't merely backdrop—it's a geological character. Director Harry Hyde weaponizes the landscape's desolate grandeur, framing prospectors as ants scrambling across primordial rock formations that seem to sneer at human avarice. When Marshall Strong (played with arresting stoicism by Harry Hyde himself) first spies Constance Harvey (Florence Turner) through the warped glass of a schoolhouse window, the..."

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