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him to a casino where he wins a large sum from his unknown son. When he wants to cash his chips, he is told that some of them, which are brand new, were stolen. From his description of the young man from whom he had won the chips, young
Jacques is easily identified and arrested. He begs his mother to help him. Laure remembers the letter written by her lover twenty years earlier. She changes the date on the letter from 1904 to 1924 and brings it to the police claiming that Jacques Prémont-Solène is the thief. He confesses and, as he offers to reimburse the money, the Casino agrees to withdraw its complaint. Jacques proposes to take his son to America to secure his future and Laure agrees to accompany them.
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commit suicide, she tells him that she will take the blame for the theft. Thanks to Baron de Curgis, a rich man in love with her, the scandal is avoided but she is ruined. In Paris, Jacques' father refuses to give him money and sends him to the United States to show what he can do by himself. Jacques writes her a letter confessing the theft and informing her that his father has forced him to go to
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in 1958. In 2009 a new tinted version close to the original colours and including a few supplementary scenes was produced with the help from the Franco-American
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on the other hand wrote: "You only need to screen one reel of
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The film was reconstructed in 1986 on the basis of the
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