Smilin' at Trouble is a 1925 American silent Western film directed by Harry Garson and starring Maurice 'Lefty' Flynn, Helen Lynch and Kathleen Myers.[1] Location shooting took place around San Pedro and at a dam construction site, likely the Pit 3 Dam in Northern California.
| Smilin' at Trouble | |
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| Directed by | Harry Garson |
| Written by | Barry Barringer Gertrude Orr Rob Wagner |
| Produced by | Harry Garson |
| Starring | Maurice 'Lefty' Flynn Helen Lynch Kathleen Myers |
| Cinematography | Gilbert Warrenton |
Production company | Harry Garson Productions |
| Distributed by | Film Booking Offices of America |
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Running time | 60 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
Plot edit
As described in a film magazine review,[2] Michael Arnold, a wealthy contractor who hopes to crash into high society with the aid of Lafaette Van Renselaer, a worthless and dishonest aristocratic youth he carried on a dam construction job, engages a young civil engineer Jerry Foster to help him over several structural difficulties in the work. The engineer falls in love with his employer’s daughter Alice, and she returns his affection until she believes him to be in love with another woman. The dishonest youth’s success in having used inferior cement in the dam results in a flood in which he is drowned. The engineer saves his employer’s daughter from death and he and she are wed.
Cast edit
- Maurice 'Lefty' Flynn as Jerry Foster
- Helen Lynch as Alice Arnold
- Ray Ripley as Lafaette Van Renselaer
- Lee Shumway as Swazey
- Charles McHugh as Clancey O'Toole
- Hal Wilson as Michael Arnold
- Kathleen Myers as Kathleen O'Toole
- Ray Turner as Colored Boy
- Joe O'Brien as Tom
References edit
- ^ Katchmer p. 293
- ^ "New Pictures: Smilin' at Trouble". Exhibitors Herald. 24 (2). Chicago: Exhibitors Herald Co.: 66 December 26, 1925. Retrieved January 17, 2023.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
Bibliography edit
- Connelly, Robert B. The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36, Volume 40, Issue 2. December Press, 1998.
- Katchmer, George A. Eighty Silent Film Stars: Biographies and Filmographies of the Obscure to the Well Known. McFarland, 1991.
- Munden, Kenneth White. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press, 1997.
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