| He Comes Up Smiling | |
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| Directed by | Allan Dwan |
| Written by | Frances Marion Theodore Reed (scenario editor) |
| Based on | He Comes Up Smiling by Charles Sherman He Comes Up Smiling by Byron Ongley and Emil Nyitray |
| Produced by | Douglas Fairbanks |
| Starring | Douglas Fairbanks |
| Cinematography | Joseph H. August Hugh McClung |
Production company | Famous Players–Lasky/Artcraft |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Running time | 5reels (4,876 feet) |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent (Englishintertitles) |
He Comes Up Smiling is a 1918 American comedy film produced by and starringDouglas Fairbanks and directed byAllan Dwan.
This film was based on a novel of the same title by Charles Sherman, which was adapted into a 1914 play of the same name by Byron Ongley and Emil Nyitray. Fairbanks starred in the play withPatricia Collinge as the female lead. This film "survives incomplete".[1]
As described in afilm magazine,[2] the principal duty of bank clerk Jerry Martin is to care for the bank president's pet canary. The bird escapes and Jerry starts in pursuit. In a chase that takes him far afield, Jerry meets a hobo and decides to give up his bank job. Baron Bean (Montana), another hobo, becomes his valet, but they desert Jerry when he is taking a bath and steal his clothes. He finds a suit belonging to William Batchelor (MacQuarrie), a broker who is cooling off at a pool, and with the broker's business cards he passes himself off as Batchelor. He meets John Bartlett (Campeau) and his daughter Billie (Daw) and promptly falls in love. Her father is also a stock broker who has been nicked by Batchelor. An attempt is made to corner the market while Jerry is being entertained, but he foils the plotters, falls heir to a fortune, and wins the love of Billie.
The surviving reels ofHe Comes Up Smiling were preserved by theAcademy Film Archive in 2010.[3]
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