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Children of Chance is a film of genre Drama directed by Alexander Esway with Elissa Landi

Children of Chance (1930)

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Genres Drama,    Crime
Rating67% 3.3985153.3985153.3985153.3985153.398515

Children of Chance is a 1930 British crime film directed by Alexander Esway and starring Elissa Landi, Mabel Poulton, John Stuart and John Longden.

Actors

Elissa Landi

(Binnie)Mabel Poulton

(Molly)Dorothy Minto
John Longden

(Jeffrey)Gus McNaughton

(H.K. Zinkuyell)
And :
Wallace Lupino
John Stuart
Kay Hammond
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