Red Dice (1926)

This unusual melodrama with comic touches was based on Octavus Roy Cohens novel The Iron Chance Alan Beckwith Rod La Rocque is a war hero who is very much down on his luck He makes a deal with bigtime bootlegger Andrew North Gustave von Seyffertitz if North will give him a large sum of money Beckwith will kill himself at the end of a years time He is to marry a girl of Norths choosing and take out an insurance policy naming her as beneficiary North will collect from the widow The plot thickens when Beckwith and Beverly Marguerite De La Motte the girl North has him marry actually fall in love Beverlys brother Johnny Ray Hallor teams up with Beckwith to steal one of Norths cargos of rum North and his men catch them and things look bad until revenue officers called on by Beverly show up The North gang is rounded up and Beckwith looks forward to a long life with his wife