Duped
New Yorker John Holmes, who has made a fortune on Wall Street, receives an urgent message to go West because a California gold mine in which he has invested may be lost due to the larceny of his foreman. Once in California, he meets Dolores Verdiego, who became an innocent victim of the foreman and his gang when she was coerced into making a false ownership claim on the mine from an old charter. John and Dolores fall in love, and John eventually unmasks the thieves and recovers his mine after the charter to proven to be a forgery.
- Rated
- Passed
- Released
- 1925
Details
Release year: 1925
Storyline
New Yorker John Holmes, who has made a fortune on Wall Street, receives an urgent message to go West because a California gold mine in which he has invested may be lost due to the larceny of his foreman. Once in California, he meets Dolores Verdiego, who became an innocent victim of the foreman and his gang when she was coerced into making a false ownership claim on the mine from an old charter. John and Dolores fall in love, and John eventually unmasks the thieves and recovers his mine after the charter to proven to be a forgery.
Top credits
- William Desmond — John Morgan
- Helen Holmes — Dolores Verdiego (last of the Benevidas)
- J.P. McGowan — 'Hard Rock' Ralston
- Dorothea Wolbert — Sweet Marie