Cruise of the Jasper B
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Plot
The film stars actor Rod La Rocque as 'Jerry Cleggert', a good-natured descendant of an 18th-century pirate who resides aboard the rickety ship Jasper B. Cleggert is informed that in order to inherit a large inheritance, he must marry on his twenty-fifth birthday – otherwise he would relinquish all claims to his impending fortune.
Jerry soon meets his ideal would-be bride, Agatha Fairhaven (Mildred Harris), and the two immediately fall in love. Complications arise when the dastardly Reginald Maltravers (Snitz Edwards) attempts to cheat Agatha out of her inheritance.
The courting couple suffer a series of mishaps on the way to altar; they are waylaid en route by a trio of bandits, escape from a runaway taxi cab, and outrun a mob of unscrupulous state authorities.
The weary couple finally manage to wed just before the deadline on board the Jasper B and Cleggert inherits his family fortune.
Cast
- Rod La Rocque as Jerry Cleggett
- Mildred Harris as Agatha Fairhaven
- Snitz Edwards as Reginald Maltravers
- Jack Ackroyd as Wiggins
- Otto Lederer as Auctioneer
- James T. Mack as Assistant Auctioneer
- Billy Engle as Little Mover
- Charlie Hall as Mover
- Fred Kelsey as Bailiff
- Tiny Sandford as Big Mover
Preservation
Prints of Cruise of the Jasper B are in the collections of the Library of Congress, Archives Du Film Du CNC, UCLA Film and Television Archive, and George Eastman Museum Motion Picture Collection.[4]
See also
- Paradise for Two, a 1927 film about inheritance
- Five and Ten Cent Annie (1928); a similar themed lost movie
References
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- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1". Don Marquis: His Life and Times.
- ↑ Progressive Silent Film List: The Cruise of the Jasper B at silentera.com
- ↑ The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1921-30 by The American Film Institute, c. 1971
- ↑ Library of Congress / FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: Cruise of the Jasper B
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- Adaptations of works by Don Marquis
- Films directed by James W. Horne
- 1920s American films
- Silent American action adventure films
- 1920s action adventure films
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