Sailor Izzy Murphy

Sailor Izzy Murphy (1927)

They make poor Izzy Lord High Admiral, Chief Excecutioner, Coal Heaver Extraordinary! He saves his own life and that of his ladylove and her peevish papa!

Izzy Murphy is a street vendor of scents that falls in love with the beautiful woman (Audrey Ferris) whose picture adorns the perfume bottle he sells. After resourcefully tracing the beauty (whose father(Warner Oland) manufactures the perfume to a luxury yacht, he finds himself in the company of an escaped lunatic John Miljan) who has vowed to murder the perfume manufacturer in retaliation for all the flowers that have been lost in the making of the perfume.

Date of release
1927-10-08
TMDB
7.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
1h 10m
Genres
Comedy, Drama
Director
Henry Lehrman

Casting

Interesting facts

Sailor Izzy Murphy is a 1927 American synchronized sound comedy-drama film released from Warner Bros. Pictures starring George Jessel, Audrey Ferris, Warner Oland and John Milijan. While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using the Vitaphone sound-on-disc process. The film was a follow-up to a previous film starring Jessel titled Private Izzy Murphy. The film premiered on October 8, 1927, at the Warners' Theater, two days after the premiere of The Jazz Singer, the first talking film (part-talkie) starring Al Jolson.

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