A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2024 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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The Gambling Fool
(1925) United States of America
B&W : Five reels
Directed by J.P. McGowan

Cast: Franklyn Farnum [Jack Stanford], Otto Myers (Otto Meyer) [‘Stringy’ Hawkins], Fred Holmes [‘Plump’ Parker], Harry S. Northrup [Lightning Cass], Jack Pearce (Jack P. Pierce) [Bud Fitzroy], Ralph Yearsley [George Morgan], Mary Louise Montague [Morgan’s child], Joseph W. Girard [George Hartford], Ruth Dwyer [Mary Hartford]

Independent Pictures Corporation production; distributed on State Rights basis [?] by Independent Pictures Corporation? / Screenplay by J.P. McGowan. Cinematography by King Grey (King D. Gray). Presented by Jesse J. Goldburg. / Released January 1925. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Drama: Western.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 28 July 2021.

References: FilmYearBook-1926 p. 41 : ClasIm-226 p. 40 : Website-IMDb.