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Cruise of the Jasper B
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Wikipedia article
'Cruise of the Jasper B' is a 1926 American silent action/adventure comedy film produced by Cecil B. DeMille and directed by James W. Horne. The film is loosely based on the 1916 novel of the same name by American poet Don Marquis, although the film adaptation and novel share little in common. 'Don Marquis: His Life and Times.'[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/C/CruiseOfTheJasperB1926.html 'The Cruise of the Jasper B' at silentera.com]'The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1921-30' by The American Film Institute, c. 1971
Plot
The film stars actor Rod La Rocque as 'Jerry Cleggert', a good-natured descendant of an 18th-century pirate who resides aboard the rickety ship 'Jasper B'. Cleggert is informed that in order to inherit a large inheritance, he must marry on his twenty-fifth birthday - otherwise he would relinquish all claims to his impending fortune.
Jerry soon meets his ideal would-be bride Agatha Fairhaven (Mildred Harris) and the two immediately fall in love. Complications arise when the dastardly Reginald Maltravers (Snitz Edwards) attempts to cheat Agatha out of her inheritance.
The courting couple suffer a series of mishaps on the way to altar; they are waylaid en route by a trio of bandits, escape from a runaway taxi cab, and outrun a mob of unscrupulous state authorities.
The weary couple finally manage to wed just before the deadline on board the 'Jasper B' and Cleggert inherits his family fortune.
Cast
*Rod La Rocque - Jerry Cleggett
*Mildred Harris - Agatha Fairhaven
*Snitz Edwards - Reginald Maltravers
*Jack Ackroyd - Wiggins
*Otto Lederer - Auctioneer
*James T. Mack - Assistant Auctioneer
*Billy Engle - Little Mover
*Charlie Hall - Mover
*Fred Kelsey - Bailiff
*Tiny Sandford - Big Mover
See also
*'Five and Ten Cent Annie' (1928); a similar themed lost movie
References
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