Comedy · United States of America · 1928 · 1h 10m

The Wright Idea

Director

Cast

Johnny Hines as Johnny Wright Louise Lorraine as Helen Edmund Breese as Mr. Filbert Fred Kelsey as M. T. Flatt Henry A. Barrows as Mr. Smoot Henry Hebert as Mr. Stein

Crew

George Amy — Editor Jack Townley — Writer C.C. Burr — Producer

Tagline

Girls, Giggles and Gags! Love Larks and Laughs! With Johnny's inimitable pep just oozing right out of the screen into your heart!

Synopsis

A chipper young inventor seems to have a stroke of good luck when an eccentric millionaire gives him a yacht as a gift… but the “millionaire” is really an escapee from an asylum and the yacht is being used to smuggle illicit spirits by a gang of bootleggers. Can’t win ‘em all…

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Key Collaborators

Charles Hines Director George Amy Editor Jack Townley Writer C.C. Burr Producer

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