The Man Who Couldn't Beat God is a 1915 American silent film written by Harold Gilmore Calhoun and directed by Maurice Costello and Robert Gaillard.

Once in New York, he gets a job as a sand hog, where is doing well until one day the tunnel begins to collapse, threatening to drown the crew.

As time goes on, he distinguishes himself further through hard work, rising through the ranks until he is made foreman, and finally put in charge of all construction.

The marriage ceremony is marred slightly when Henchford receives another vision of the murdered Rexford, superimposed over the face of the minister.

One night while at the theater watching a performance of Oliver Twist, he is overcome when he sees the dead man's vision superimposed over Bill Sikes as he murders Nancy.

One night, driven by guilt, he sneaks out of the sickroom and visits the site where he killed Rexford years earlier.

Harold Gilmore Calhoun won second prize for his screenplay in a writing contest held by The Evening Sun in June 1914.

Other cast members announced at the same time included Charles Eldridge, Thomas Mills, Robert Gaillard, Naomi Childers, Edwina Robbins, Estelle Mardo and Gladden James.

They felt the acting, cinematography and direction were all superior, but the plot was the weak point, starting well, but it "peters out through a wrong psychological premise".