On the Jump (1918)
1h
Running Time
October 6, 1918Release Date
On the Jump (1918)
1h
Running Time
October 6, 1918Release Date
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Plot.
In this propaganda film, athletic silent star George Walsh plays reporter Jack Bartlett, who interviews President Wilson regarding the Fourth Liberty Loan. The story never appears in the paper, however, because its new owner, Otto Crumley, is pro-German. So Jack quits his job and begins canvassing for the Liberty Loans. In the midst of his vigorous campaigning he also halts Crumley's plans to inspire a strike at a munitions plant.
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On the Jump is a 1918 American silent comedy film directed by Raoul Walsh and starring George Walsh, Frances Burnham and James A. Marcus. A journalist resigns from a newspaper when it is taken over a pro-German sympathiser, and sets out to expose him as a German agent.