Wheel of Chance

Wheel of Chance

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jun 17, 1928

Runtime

1h 10m

Genres

War

Original Title

Wheel of Chance

Production Companies

First National Pictures

Director

Alfred Santell

Description

A Russian family, the Turkeltaubs, emigrates to the US before the Communist revolution that overthrew the Czar. One of their twin sons, Schulke, disappears and is believed dead before they leave. After they settle into their new country, the family does well: the surviving twin, Nicholai, becomes a crusading District Attorney. One of the cases he is assigned to prosecute is that of small-time gangster Jacob Talinef, who has killed a former girlfriend of Nicholai's. Further investigation of the case, though, reveals a shocking secret.