The Wright Idea (1928)
Girls, Giggles and Gags! Love Larks and Laughs! With Johnny's inimitable pep just oozing right out of the screen into your heart!
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…
- Date of release
- 1928-08-05
- TMDB
- 10.0 / 10 (1)
- Runtime
- 1h 10m
- Genres
- Comedy
- Director
- Charles Hines
Casting
- Johnny Hines — Johnny Wright
- Louise Lorraine — Helen
- Edmund Breese — Mr. Filbert
- Fred Kelsey — M. T. Flatt
- Henry A. Barrows — Mr. Smoot
- Henry Hebert — Mr. Stein
- Walter James — Captain Sandy
Interesting facts
The Wright Idea is a 1928 American silent comedy film directed by Charles Hines and starring Johnny Hines, Louise Lorraine, and Edmund Breese.
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