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Hard Luck

  • Comedy

March 14, 1921 (US)

0h 22m

2000 FEET OF ROARING LAUGHTER

A down on his luck young man makes several attempts at committing suicide but fails them too. He then finds himself becoming more confident through a series of petty adventures, to such an extent that this becomes his undoing.

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