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Napoleon’s Luck Stone

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What the papers said

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This story of the timid clerk who thought he had found the luck stone of the great Napoleon, only to discover later that it was an onion, gets hold of the observer strongly on the first part. The part of the clerk would have been a little stronger in the latter half without so much of the burlesque touch, but the interest is held throughout.

The Moving Picture World · 25 January 1913

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8 January 1913The New York Dramatic Mirror1 min

A tale of a meek little clerk who is made a fearless hero simply through possession of a charm which he believes to be Napoleon’s Luck Stone. And then it turns out to be a—!

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James Cruze as the clerk
Marguerite Snow

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Bowers’ notes
  1. The Pretty Girl in Lower 5, released on February 18, 1913, was originally scheduled for this date. 2. No synopsis of this film appeared in The Billboard, The Moving Picture News, or The Moving Picture World. It is believed that the Thanhouser studio fire interfered with the distribution of synopses for this film and also for The Floorwalker’s Triumph (released January 24, 1913).

From Volume II: Filmography of Q. David Bowers’ Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, reproduced with permission and unchanged. Read the history of 1913 →

Cite as: Bowers, Q. David. Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, “Napoleon’s Luck Stone”. thanhouser.org/films/napoleon-s-luck-stone/

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