Lois Carrington becomes the ward of gambler John Tralee when her father drops dead during a card game with Tralee. Tralee educates Lois and gives her a home of her own, but he uses her as a decoy in his gambling joint, where she meets Peter Marineaux.
In the pantheon of early American cinema, few motifs carry the heavy symbolic weight of the gambling den. It is a space where the American Dream is both accelerated and annihilated, a microcosm of the volatile social mobility of the 1920s. Roulette (1924), a film that has often been eclipsed by more bombastic contemp...
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Stanner E.V. Taylor
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" In the pantheon of early American cinema, few motifs carry the heavy symbolic weight of the gambling den. It is a space where the American Dream is both accelerated and annihilated, a microcosm of the volatile social mobility of the 1920s. Roulette (1924), a film that has often been eclipsed by more bombastic contemporaries, offers a searing, if melodramatic, critique of this environment. It is a narrative that begins with a death and ends with a marriage, yet the emotional journey between the..."
Henry Hull
Lewis Allen Browne, Gerald C. Duffy, William MacHarg
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