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