Movies: Wager

Two Marine pilots vie for romance and glory....

A man who believes that love is more animal and chemical than spiritual, bets that by controlling the circumstances, he can get any man and woman to fall for with each other and get engaged within a month....

Bright young novelist Mabel Vere is engaged to Gerald Wantage, a prig who angrily objects when she advertises for a husband in order to elicit ideas for her new book. Mabel's roommate, Maud Bray, a physical culture expert, frightens away the less des...

The jeweler Edmond gets a competitor, Mr. Snyder, who specializes in imitations. Snyder challenges him and claims he can make a perfect imitation of a pearl Edmond chooses....

Rogers plays a small town banker in the 1890s whose chief rival is the deacon (Middleton) with whom he has traded horse flesh. Taylor is a bank teller who places a winning $4,500 bet on a 10-1 harness racing horse, making him Rogers' bank partner....

A young man bets $10,000 that for 24 hour he can tell nothing but the truth....