The Vagaries of Fate

1914
10m

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Louise Huff and Edgar Jones in The Vagaries of Fate (1914)

District Attorney Gerald Durban cuts short his honeymoon to conduct the trial of some members of a society of blackmailers. He is warned that his life will be forfeited if he sends them to j... Read allDistrict Attorney Gerald Durban cuts short his honeymoon to conduct the trial of some members of a society of blackmailers. He is warned that his life will be forfeited if he sends them to jail, but he obtains a conviction. Other members of the society abduct him by luring his ch... Read allDistrict Attorney Gerald Durban cuts short his honeymoon to conduct the trial of some members of a society of blackmailers. He is warned that his life will be forfeited if he sends them to jail, but he obtains a conviction. Other members of the society abduct him by luring his chauffeur away and one of their members taking the place of the driver. He is taken to a hou... Read all

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The Vagaries of Movie-making

District Attorney Edgar Jones convicts some blackmailers, so other members of the gang kidnap him and try to blow him up.

This is an ambitious movie for Lubin, the most conservative of the Patents Trust companies. Mr. Jones seems to have fancied himself a bit of an auteur, because he stars and directs. Unfortunately, like many another movie, the plan that the abductors have concocted is too elaborate. They divert his driver, drive him to their hideout, tie him up, show him the bomb they are going to blow him up with -- it's unconnected to the alarm clock they are using as a timer -- and go out for a beer, pausing along the way to phone Mr. Jones' new wife, who accompanies the police to a gun battle along the way.

This "I expect you to die, Mr. Bond!" attitude is still with us. Pity.