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A Fool and His Money

A Modern Love Story in a Medieval Setting Ghosts and Feudal Castles. The castle was haunted-and he married the ghost.

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Director
Robert Ellis
Language
English
Released
1920-03-29
Runtime
1h

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American author John B. Smart, searching for solitude and an atmosphere for a new story, purchases an old castle in Switzerland. He discovers the beautiful Aline hiding with a baby in the east tower. Daughter of an American millionaire she on running from her ex-husband Count Tarnowsky, who squandered her money and treated her brutally, but whom the courts have awarded their child. The Count arrives confronting John who overcomes him and has him thrown into the dungeon. Smart, Aline and her child flee on a sleigh speeding towards the Italian border with the escaped Count in pursuit. In the nick of time they safely cross the border and Aline consents to be John's wife.

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