The Cock-Eyed World
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Directed by | Raoul Walsh |
Written by | Raoul Walsh William K. Wells Wilbur Morse Jr. Maxwell Anderson Wilson Mizner Laurence Stallings Tom Barry |
Starring | Victor McLaglen Edmund Lowe Lili Damita |
Cinematography | Arthur Edeson |
Edited by | Jack Dennis |
Distributed by | Fox Film Corporation |
Release dates
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October 20, 1929 |
Running time
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118 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $2.7 million[1][2] |
The Cock-Eyed World (1929) is a sequel to What Price Glory? and musical film made by Fox Film Corporation, directed and written by Raoul Walsh (director of What Price Glory?), and based on the Flagg and Quirt story by Maxwell Anderson, Tom Barry, Wilson Mizner and Laurence Stallings.
The film stars Victor McLaglen and Edmund Lowe, reprising their original roles, as well as Lili Damita.[3] The picture was also released in a silent version on October 5, 1929.[4]
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Plot
Flagg (Victor McLaglen) and Quirt (Edmund Lowe) find themselves transferred from Russia to Brooklyn to South America, in each place squaring off over a local beauty.
The film remains one of the earliest screen sequels to a critical and popular success with the two lead actors playing the same characters, as well as the original writers and director intact from the first picture.
Cast
- Victor McLaglen as Top Sergeant Flagg
- Edmund Lowe as Sergeant Harry Quirt
- Lili Damita as Mariana Elenita
- Leila Karnelly as Olga
- El Brendel as 'Yump' Olson
- Joe Brown as Brownie
- Stuart Erwin as Buckley
References
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External links
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- The Cock-Eyed World at the TCM Movie Database
- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). The Cock-Eyed World at IMDb
- The Cock-Eyed World at AllMovie
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- ↑ Quigley Publishing Company "The All Time Best Sellers", International Motion Picture Almanac 1937-38 (1938) p 942 accessed 19 April 2014
- ↑ The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1921-30 by The American Film Institute, c. 1971
- ↑ The Cock-Eyed World at silentera.com
- Pages with reference errors
- English-language films
- Commons category link from Wikidata
- 1929 films
- 1920s comedy films
- 1920s musical films
- American silent feature films
- American films
- American musical comedy films
- American black-and-white films
- Films directed by Raoul Walsh
- Military humor in film
- United States Marine Corps in popular culture
- Fox Film films
- American comedy films
- Musical comedy film stubs