The Cock-Eyed World
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The Cock-Eyed World is a 1929 American sound (All-Talking) pre-Code musical comedy feature film. One of the earliest "talkies", it was a sequel to What Price Glory? (1926), it was directed and written by Raoul Walsh and based on the Flagg and Quirt story by Maxwell Anderson, Tom Barry, Wilson Mizner, and Laurence Stallings. Fox Film Corporation released the film at the Roxy in New York on August 3, 1929.[1]
The film stars Victor McLaglen and Edmund Lowe, reprising their original roles, as well as Lili Damita.[2] The picture was also released in a silent version on October 5, 1929.[3]
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 be 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
Opening week record
According to Variety, the film beat every known gross for any box office attraction throughout the world with a reported first week gross of $173,391 at the Roxy.[4] It grossed another record $173,667 in its second week.[5]
Gallery
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The Cock-Eyed World ad in The Film Daily, 1929
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Lili Damita and Victor McLaglen in The Cock-Eyed World
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See also
References
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- ↑ The American Film Institute Catalog
- ↑ The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1921-30 by The American Film Institute, c. 1971
- ↑ The Cock-Eyed World profile, silentera.com; accessed September 10, 2016.
- ↑ "Fox's World High, $173,391" Variety, August 14, 1929 Page 9
- ↑ Variety, August 21, 1929, p. 9.
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- 1929 films
- 1929 musical comedy films
- American musical comedy films
- American black-and-white films
- Films directed by Raoul Walsh
- Military comedy films
- Films about the United States Marine Corps
- Fox Film films
- 1920s English-language films
- 1920s American films
- English-language musical comedy films