{"id":71844,"date":"2025-08-18T00:35:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T20:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/24craftsme.com\/media\/movies\/a-sporting-chance\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T00:35:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T20:35:08","slug":"a-sporting-chance","status":"publish","type":"movies","link":"https:\/\/24craftsme.com\/media\/movies\/a-sporting-chance\/","title":{"rendered":"A Sporting Chance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Stonehouse (William Russell) checks into a hotel, intending to commit suicide. But instead he winds up helping a girl, Gilberte Bonheur (Fritzi Brunette), out of a jam. He finds her bending over a man who she has apparently killed, and since he&#8217;s about to kill himself anyway, he offers to assume the blame. Throw a valuable emerald into the works, and the fact that the dead man suddenly comes back to life, and Stonehouse &#8212; not to mention the audience &#8212; becomes thoroughly befuddled by it all. Everything clears up, however, when Gilberte gives him a theater ticket &#8212; it turns out that everything he went through was the plot to a stage play, enacted in real life by the actors. The critics roasted the play, saying it wasn&#8217;t true to life, and this was their proof that the situations really could happen. Gilberte retires from acting when Stonehouse proposes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":333,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"genres":[81,113,82],"dtquality":[],"dtcast":[88632,11306,13629,11637,11169,88633,25219],"dtdirector":[12202,88631],"dtyear":[10931],"class_list":["post-71844","movies","type-movies","status-publish","hentry","genres-comedy","genres-drama","genres-mystery","dtcast-fritzi-brunette","dtcast-george-periolat","dtcast-harvey-clark","dtcast-j-farrell-macdonald","dtcast-lee-hill","dtcast-perry-banks","dtcast-william-russell","dtdirector-henry-king","dtdirector-sidney-algier","dtyear-10931"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/24craftsme.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/movies\/71844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/24craftsme.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/movies"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/24craftsme.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/movies"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/24craftsme.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/333"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/24craftsme.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/24craftsme.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/24craftsme.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71844"},{"taxonomy":"genres","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/24craftsme.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/genres?post=71844"},{"taxonomy":"dtquality","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/24craftsme.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dtquality?post=71844"},{"taxonomy":"dtcast","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/24craftsme.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dtcast?post=71844"},{"taxonomy":"dtdirector","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/24craftsme.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dtdirector?post=71844"},{"taxonomy":"dtyear","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/24craftsme.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dtyear?post=71844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}