Jack Straw (1920)
50m
Running Time
March 14, 1920Release Date
Plot.
Jack Straw (Warwick) is an iceman who becomes a waiter to be closer to the girl (McComas) he is interested in. Later, to impress her, he impersonates an Archduke from Pomerania. A Count from Pomerania (Brower) who is the ambassador arrives and learns of the long-missing son of royalty. The girl's mother (Ashton) learns of the trick being played by Jack. Just when Jack is exposed as being a fraud, it turns out that he is the genuine article.
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Cast & Crew.
Robert Warwick
Jack Straw
Carroll McComas
Ethel Parker Jennings
Charles Ogle
Mr. Parker Jennings
Irene Sullivan
Mrs. Wanley
Monte du Mont
Ambrose Holland
Frances Parks
Rose
Lucien Littlefield
Sherlo
Robert Brower
Count of Pomerania
Details.
This Movie Is About.
library of congress
Wiki.
Jack Straw is a 1920 American silent comedy film produced by Famous Players–Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. William C. deMille directed the film and Robert Warwick and Carroll McComas star. The film is based on a 1908 stage play by W. Somerset Maugham starring John Drew and a young Mary Boland. In 1926 Paramount attempted a remake of this film called The Waiter from the Ritz which was begun and/or completed but never released. James Cruze directed and Raymond Griffith starred; this film, if completed, is now lost. The 1920 film survives at the Library of Congress.