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A Splendid Hazard
(1920) United States of America
B&W : Five reels
Directed by Allan Dwan

Cast: Henry B. Walthall [Karl Breitman], Rosemary Theby [Hedda Gobert], Norman Kerry [John Fitzgerald], Ann Forrest [Laura Killigrew], Hardee Kirkland [Admiral Killigrew], Thomas Jefferson [Doctor Ferraud], Philo McCullough [Arthur Cathewe], Jiquel Lanoe [Pierre Picard], Joseph Dowling (Joseph J. Dowling) [a French émigré]

Allan Dwan Productions production, presented by Mayflower Photoplay Corporation; distributed by First National Exhibitors’ Circuit, Incorporated [An Allan Dwan Production; A First National Attraction]. / From the novel The Splendid Hazard by Harold MacGrath. Art direction by Charles H. Kyson. Cinematography by Glen McWilliams (Glen MacWilliams). Music score arranged by Louis F. Gottschalk. Presented by Mayflower Photoplay Corporation. / © 3 March 1921 by Mayflower Photoplay Corporation [LP17590]. Premiered June 1920 in the midwest USA. General release, September 1920. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Drama.

Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.4212.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Duels - France

Listing updated: 13 October 2025.

References: AFI-F1 n. F1.4212; Brownlow-Parade pp. 101-102 : Website-AFI; Website-ASFFDb.