Luck and Pluck

Luck and Pluck
Luck and Pluck
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Directed by	Edward Dillon
Screenplay by	Adrian Johnson ; Raymond L. Schrock
Story by	George Scarborough
Produced by	William Fox
Starring	George Walsh ; Virginia Lee ; Joe Smiley ; George Fisher
Production; company	Fox Film Corporation
Distributed by	Fox Film Corporation
Release date	February 2, 1919;
Running time	5 reels
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

Luck and Pluck is a 1919 drama film directed by Edward Dillon. It was produced and distributed by Fox Film Corporation.

Plot

Joe Grim, alias "Velvet," is content to attend strictly to the business of housebreaking until he rescues a good looking girl in a runaway in Central Park. After that he does his best to steal the girl's heart. Her father is chief of the United States Intelligence Bureau, and her fiance is Karl Richter, a German spy, who belongs to a band that is trying to steal the plans of an aeroplane invented by Professor Slade. Countess Briand, a member of the band, is another supposed friend of the heroine's, and the young girl is taken to her house after the runaway. Joe goes to the home of the countess to steal a photograph of his charmer, believing that she lives there. The countess covers him with a revolver and learns his errand. She tells him that Slade is trying to blackmail his Laura, and has letters belonging to the girl. Joe rushes to Slade's house,. steals the plans in mistake for the letters, and gives them to the countess. When he discovers his mistake he steals the plans.back again and returns them to the halfcrazed inventor. The crook goes on stealing his way through the story to help his love affair, and his quick action is the means of saving Laura and catching the German conspirators when they kidnap the girl. Joe receives his reward by marrying Laura.

Cast

George Walsh as Joe Grim/Velvet
Virginia Lee as Laura White
Joe Smiley as a father
George Fisher as Karl Richter
Corrine Uzzell as Countess Briand
George Halpin as Velvet's valet

Reception

A contemporary article in The Houston Post called the film "one of the strongest human interest stories ever seen on the screen".

A contemporary review in The Moving Picture World praised George Walsh's performance.

Preservation status

According to the National Film Preservation Board, the film is lost.

References

1 2 "Luck and Pluck (1919)". American Film Institute. Retrieved 12 October 2026.
1 2 Weitzel, Edward (15 February 1919). "Luck and Pluck". Moving Picture World. Vol. 39, no. 7. p. 946. Retrieved 12 October 2026. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
↑ ""Luck and Pluck" at the Crows". The Houston Post. 1919-02-14. p. 10. Retrieved 2026-10-12.

External links

Luck and Pluck at IMDb

[:2-1] 1 2 "Luck and Pluck (1919)". American Film Institute. Retrieved 12 October 2026.

[:1-2] 1 2 Weitzel, Edward (15 February 1919). "Luck and Pluck". Moving Picture World. Vol. 39, no. 7. p. 946. Retrieved 12 October 2026. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

[3] ""Luck and Pluck" at the Crows". The Houston Post. 1919-02-14. p. 10. Retrieved 2026-10-12.