Squibs Wins the Calcutta Sweep
A flower girl wins £60,000 and takes her family to Paris to save her sister from her murderous husband.
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"Betty Balfour follows up her enormous hit as the flower girl with a heat of gold and a will of iron with a muted fantasy for the proles. Squibs is getting along well with her boyfriend, Fred Groves, but there are problems. Her father, his bookie joint shut, is at loose ends. Her sister is married to a fellow with the daunting sobriquet of "The Weasel". The Weasel kills a copper while committing a burglary and he and the missus flee to Paris. Meanwhile, Betty's dad has presented her with a sweepstakes ticket, and if you don't know how that will turn out, you haven't rea..."
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When the film played in Bitish Columbia, it was advertised as "TAKE ME BACK TO BLIGHTY", which was the title of a popular song from the war, but the connexion to this story is unclear. (Victoria Daily Times, ((Victoria, BC)) 17 September 1923)
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A flower girl wins £60,000 and takes her family to Paris to save her sister from her murderous husband.