Cruise of the Jasper B

Cruise of the Jasper B
Cruise of the Jasper B
Directed by James W. Horne
Produced by Cecil B. DeMille
Written by Tay Garnett
John W. Krafft
Zelda Sears (screenplay)
Starring Rod La Rocque
Mildred Harris
Snitz Edwards
Jack Ackroyd
Distributed by DeMille Pictures Corporation
Release date(s) 1926
Running time 60 minutes
Country USA
Language Silent film
English intertitles

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.[1]

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Plot summary

Reminiscent of the popular Douglas Fairbanks swashbuckler films of the 1920s, Cruise of the Jasper B stars actor Rod La Rocque as 'Jerry Cleggert', a good-natured descendant of an infamous clan of pirates who resides aboard the rickety ship Jasper B. Cleggert is informed that in order to inherit a large inheritance, he must marry by 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 Jerry's cousin, the dastardly lawyer Reginald Maltravers (Snitz Edwards) claims Agatha as his own.

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

References

  1. ^ [1] Don Marquis: His Life and Times.

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