Fortune Favours the Bold

Aage Falck-Rasmussen, 1923, 18 min
During a hectic taxi ride, a rich engineer loses his gold-plated lucky cane in the middle of Abel’s postal route. The taxi driver later looks for the cane and finds it in Abel’s hands. The two men enter into a shady agreement to split the finder’s fee. However, the prospect of great wealth proves too tempting for Abel...

The film has Danish intertitles. The preserved film seems to be missing the middle. Read the full plot in the cinema programme.

Based on the short story by Vilhelm From Bartrumsen ‘Lykken staar den kække bi’ (which translates as ‘Fortune favours the bold’). The saying is also used as a running reference in the film’s intertitles.