Jack Straw (1920 film)

Jack Straw
Newspaper ad for the film.
Directed by	William C. deMille
Produced by	Adolph Zukor Jesse Lasky
Written by	W. Somerset Maugham (play) Olga Printzlau (scenario) Elmer Harris (scenario)
Starring	Robert Warwick Carroll McComas
Cinematography	L. Guy Wilky
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release dates	March 14, 1920
Running time	5 reels; 4,707 feet
Country	United States
Language	Silent

Jack Straw is a 1920 silent film comedy produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. William C. deMille directed the film and Robert Warwick and Carroll McComas star. The film is based on a 1908 stage play by W. Somerset Maugham starring John Drew and a young Mary Boland. In 1926 Paramount attempted a remake of this film called The Waiter from the Ritz which was begun and/or completed but never released. James Cruze directed and Raymond Griffith starred however the film if completed is now lost. The 1920 film survives at the Library of Congress.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Plot

Based upon a review of the plot in a film publication,^[4] Jack Straw (Warwick) is an iceman who becomes a waiter to be closer to the girl (McComas) he is interested in. Later, to impress her, he impersonates an Archduke from Pomerania. A Count from Pomerania (Brower) who is the ambassador arrives and learns of the long-missing son of royalty. The girl's mother (Ashton) learns of the trick being played by Jack. Just when Jack is exposed as being a fraud, it turns out that he is the genuine article. The girl's mother then gladly announces her daughter's engagement to Jack.

Cast

Robert Warwick - Jack Straw
Carroll McComas - Ethel Parker Jennings
Charles Ogle - Mr. Parker Jennings
Irene Sullivan - Mrs. Wanley
Monte du Mont - Ambrose Holland
Frances Parks - Rose
Lucien Littlefield - Sherlo
Robert Brower - Count of Pomerania
Sylvia Ashton - Mrs. Parker Jennings

unbilled

Mayme Kelso - unknown role

References

↑ Jack Straw at the silentera.com database
↑ Jack Straw presented as a play on Broadway by Charles Frohman at the Empire Theatre, September 14, 1908 to December 1908; IBDb.com
↑ The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Jack Straw
↑ "Jack Straw: Obvious Light Comedy Has Amusing Moments". Motion Picture News (New York City: Motion Picture News, Inc.) 21 (16): 3365. Apr 10, 1920. Retrieved 2014-02-21.

External links

Films directed by William C. deMille

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1920s	The Tree of Knowledge (1920) Jack Straw (1920) The Prince Chap (1920) Conrad in Quest of His Youth (1920) Midsummer Madness (1921) What Every Woman Knows (1921) The Lost Romance (1921) After the Show (1921) Miss Lulu Bett (1921) Bought and Paid For (1922) Nice People (1922) Clarence (1922) The World's Applause (1923) Grumpy (1923) Only 38 (1923) The Marriage Maker (1923) Don't Call It Love (1923) Icebound (1924) The Bedroom Window (1924) The Fast Set (1924) Locked Doors (1925) Men and Women (1925) Lost: A Wife (1925) New Brooms (1925) The Splendid Crime (1926) The Runaway (1926) For Alimony Only (1926) The Little Adventuress (1927) Craig's Wife (1928) Tenth Avenue (1928) The Doctor's Secret (1929) The Man Higher Up (1929) The Idle Rich (1929)

1930s	Passion Flower (1930) Two Kinds of Women (1932) His Double Life (1933)

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