Clear the Decks

Clear the Decks (1929)

Cheer up! The Leviathan of Laughter is here!!

This 1929 drama about mistaken identities contains three eight minute scenes that involve talking. The rest of the film is silent and subtitled. The trouble begins when the hero follows a pretty lady aboard an ocean liner. He boards the ship using the name of his friend who was supposed to take the cruise for health reasons. The friend was told that if he did not board the boat, he would not receive his inheritance. Unfortunately for the hero, a male nurse believes that he is the sick friend and forces him to stay in the cabin and subsist upon a diet of goat's milk.

Date of release
1929-03-03
TMDB
7.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
1h 10m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Joseph Henabery

Casting

Interesting facts

Clear the Decks is a 1929 American sound part-talkie comedy film directed by Joseph Henabery and written by Earle Snell, Gladys Lehman, Albert DeMond and Charles Henry Smith. In addition to sequences with audible dialogue or talking sequences, the film features a synchronized musical score and sound effects along with English intertitles. The soundtrack was recorded using the Western Electric sound-on-film system. The film is based on the 1926 novel When the Devil Was Sick by E.J. Rath. The film stars Reginald Denny, Olive Hasbrouck, Otis Harlan, Lucien Littlefield, Collette Merton and Robert Anderson. The film was released on March 3, 1929, by Universal Pictures.

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