{{short description|1922 film by Charles Ray}} {{Use mdy dates|date=August 2020}} {{Infobox film | name = The Deuce of Spades | image = Charles Ray in The Deuce of Spades.jpg | alt = | caption = Lobby card | director = Charles Ray | producer = Charles Ray | screenplay = Alfred W. Alley<br>Richard Andres<br>Edward Withers | based_on = {{based on|''The Weight of the Last Straw''|Charles E. Van Loan}} | starring = Charles Ray<br>Peggy Prevost<br>Lincoln Plumer<br>Phil Dunham<br>Andrew Arbuckle<br>Dick Sutherland | music = | cinematography = George Rizard<br>Ellsworth H. Rumer | editing = Harry L. Decker | studio = Charles Ray Productions | distributor = Associated First National Pictures | released = {{Film date|1922|5|}} | runtime = 50 minutes | country = United States | language = Silent (English intertitles) | budget = | gross = }}
'''''The Deuce of Spades''''' is a 1922 American comedy film directed by Charles Ray and written by Alfred W. Alley, Richard Andres and Edward Withers. The film stars Charles Ray, Peggy Prevost, Lincoln Plumer, Phil Dunham, Andrew Arbuckle, and Dick Sutherland. The film was released in May 1922, by Associated First National Pictures.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/493708/the-deuce-of-spades |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180906090349/http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/493708/The-Deuce-of-Spades/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 6, 2018 |title=''The Deuce of Spades'' (1922) - Overview |publisher=Turner Classic Movies |date= |access-date=September 6, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=Janiss Garza |url=https://www.allmovie.com/movie/the-deuce-of-spades-v89292 |title=''The Deuce of Spades'' (1922) - Charles Ray |publisher=AllMovie |date= |accessdate=September 6, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/3724 |title=The Deuce of Spades |publisher=Catalog.afi.com |date= |accessdate=September 6, 2018}}</ref>
==Plot== As described in a film magazine,<ref name="Herald">{{cite journal |title=Reviews: ''The Deuce of Spades'' |journal=Exhibitors Herald |volume=14 |issue=21 |page=63 |publisher=Exhibitors Herald Company |location=New York City |date=May 20, 1922 |url=https://archive.org/details/exhibitorsherald14exhi}}</ref> Amos, a Boston youth who yearns to "go west and grow up with the country," sells his restaurant and with the proceeds goes to Little Butte, Montana, a town of tumbledown shacks and little business. While getting something to eat in the only restaurant in town, Amos is robbed of his money and given a bill of sale for the restaurant. He converts the place into a clean up-to-date café and retains Sally the bright and efficient waitress. He feels sorry for her and tries his hand at matchmaking by coaxing in succession the local bartender, saloon bouncer, and others to visit the café, but Sally will have nothing to do with them. The restaurant prospers and Amos plans a trip back to Boston. At a junction he is fleeced of $800 in a card game and returns to Little Butte very much depressed. The townspeople, hearing of him being robbed by a card shark, decorate his restaurant with cards. Amos turns into a wild man and buys a couple of guns and shoots up the town. The gamblers who robbed him come into town and drop into the restaurant. Amos gives them sandwiches made of bread and a deuce of spades which he makes them eat. He recovers his $800 and chases the gamblers out of town. He then realizes that Sally is the woman for him.
==Cast== *Charles Ray as Amos *Peggy Prevost as Sally (credited as Marjorie Maurice) *Lincoln Plumer as Elkhorn Jenkins *Phil Dunham as Edwin Dobbs *Andrew Arbuckle as Fat Ed *Dick Sutherland as Bouncer *Jack Richardson as Hawk-nose *J. P. Lockney as Restaurant Owner *Gus Leonard as Peddler *Bert Offord as The Sponge *William Courtright as Driver Bill
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== {{commons category|The Deuce of Spades}} *{{IMDb title|0013067|The Deuce of Spades}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Deuce Of Spades}} Category:1922 films Category:1922 English-language films Category:American silent comedy films Category:First National Pictures films Category:American silent feature films Category:American black-and-white films Category:1922 comedy films Category:Films directed by Charles Ray Category:1922 American films Category:English-language comedy films