A dead gambler's daughter raised by his killer—silent cinema's most cursed melodrama, literally lost to time.
Before he can avenge a crooked card game, Dan Carrington suffers heart failure and dies in his chair. John Tralee, the cheater, feels a pang of guilt when he discovers that he has taken all of Carrington's money and adopts the dead man's little girl, Lois. The girl grows up and the gambling hall becomes her second home.
Direction
Stanner E.V. Taylor's lurid moral maze.
Production
A ghost film—existing only in fragments and descriptions.
Director
Stanner E.V. Taylor
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Roulette is considered a lost film—no complete print exists, only fragments and stills survive in archives.
Director Stanner E.V. Taylor was a prolific silent-era writer who transitioned to directing lurid melodramas before vanishing from film history.
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