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| director = [[Harry Garson]]
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| writer = [[Barry Barringer]]<br />[[Gertrude Orr]]<br />[[Rob Wagner]]
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| producer = Harry Garson
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| starring = [[Maurice 'Lefty' Flynn]]<br />[[Helen Lynch]]<br />[[Kathleen Myers]]
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| cinematography = [[Gilbert Warrenton]]
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| writer = [[Barry Barringer]] <br> [[Gertrude Orr]] <br> [[Rob Wagner]]
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| studio = Harry Garson Productions
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| distributor = [[Film Booking Offices of America]]
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| starring = [[Maurice 'Lefty' Flynn]] <br> [[Helen Lynch]] <br> [[Kathleen Myers]]
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'''''Smilin' at Trouble''''' is a 1925 American [[silent film|silent]] [[western film|western]] [[drama film]] directed by [[Harry Garson]] and starring [[Maurice 'Lefty' Flynn]], [[Helen Lynch]] and [[Kathleen Myers]].<ref>Katchmer p.293</ref> [[Location shooting]] took place around [[San Pedro, Los Angeles|San Pedro]] and at a [[dam]] construction site, likely the [[Pit 3 Dam]] in [[Northern California]].
'''''Smilin' at Trouble''''' is a 1925 American [[silent film|silent]] [[Western (genre)|Western film]] directed by [[Harry Garson]] and starring [[Maurice 'Lefty' Flynn]], [[Helen Lynch]] and [[Kathleen Myers]].<ref>Katchmer p. 293</ref> [[Location shooting]] took place around [[San Pedro, Los Angeles|San Pedro]] and at a [[dam]] construction site, likely the [[Pit 3 Dam]] in [[Northern California]].

==Plot==
As described in a film magazine review,<ref name="EH">{{cite journal |last= |first= |title=New Pictures: ''Smilin' at Trouble'' |journal=Exhibitors Herald |volume=24 |issue=2 |pages=66 |publisher=Exhibitors Herald Co. |date=26 December 1925 |location=Chicago |url=https://archive.org/details/exhibitorsherald24unse/page/n333/mode/1up |accessdate=17 January 2023}} {{Source-attribution}}</ref> Michael Arnold, a wealthy contractor who hopes to crash into high society with the aid of Lafaette Van Renselaer, a worthless and dishonest aristocratic youth he carried on a dam construction job, engages a young [[civil engineer]] Jerry Foster to help him over several structural difficulties in the work. The engineer falls in love with his employer’s daughter Alice, and she returns his affection until she believes him to be in love with another woman. The dishonest youth’s success in having used inferior cement in the dam results in a flood in which he is drowned. The engineer saves his employer’s daughter from death and he and she are wed.


==Cast==
==Cast==
{{Cast listing|
* [[Maurice 'Lefty' Flynn]] as Jerry Foster
* [[Maurice 'Lefty' Flynn]] as Jerry Foster
* [[Helen Lynch]] as Alice Arnold
* [[Helen Lynch]] as Alice Arnold
* [[Ray Ripley]] as Lafaette Van Renselaer
* [[Ray Ripley]] as Lafaette Van Renselaer
* [[Lee Shumway]] as Swazey
* [[Lee Shumway]] as Swazey
* [[Charles McHugh (actor)|Charles McHugh]] as Clancey O'Toole
* [[Charles McHugh (actor)|Charles McHugh]] as Clancey O'Toole
* [[Hal Wilson]] as Michael Arnold
* [[Hal Wilson]] as Michael Arnold
* [[Kathleen Myers]] as Kathleen O'Toole
* [[Kathleen Myers]] as Kathleen O'Toole
* [[Ray Turner (actor)|Ray Turner]] as Colored Boy
* [[Ray Turner (actor)|Ray Turner]] as Colored Boy
* [[Joe O'Brien (actor)|Joe O'Brien]] as Tom
* [[Joe O'Brien (actor)|Joe O'Brien]] as Tom
}}


==References==
==References==
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Latest revision as of 03:47, 2 August 2024

Smilin' at Trouble
Lobby card
Directed byHarry Garson
Written byBarry Barringer
Gertrude Orr
Rob Wagner
Produced byHarry Garson
StarringMaurice 'Lefty' Flynn
Helen Lynch
Kathleen Myers
CinematographyGilbert Warrenton
Production
company
Harry Garson Productions
Distributed byFilm Booking Offices of America
Release date
  • December 6, 1925 (1925-12-06)
Running time
60 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)

Smilin' at Trouble is a 1925 American silent Western film directed by Harry Garson and starring Maurice 'Lefty' Flynn, Helen Lynch and Kathleen Myers.[1] Location shooting took place around San Pedro and at a dam construction site, likely the Pit 3 Dam in Northern California.

Plot

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As described in a film magazine review,[2] Michael Arnold, a wealthy contractor who hopes to crash into high society with the aid of Lafaette Van Renselaer, a worthless and dishonest aristocratic youth he carried on a dam construction job, engages a young civil engineer Jerry Foster to help him over several structural difficulties in the work. The engineer falls in love with his employer’s daughter Alice, and she returns his affection until she believes him to be in love with another woman. The dishonest youth’s success in having used inferior cement in the dam results in a flood in which he is drowned. The engineer saves his employer’s daughter from death and he and she are wed.

Cast

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References

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  1. ^ Katchmer p. 293
  2. ^ "New Pictures: Smilin' at Trouble". Exhibitors Herald. 24 (2). Chicago: Exhibitors Herald Co.: 66 December 26, 1925. Retrieved January 17, 2023. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

Bibliography

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  • Connelly, Robert B. The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36, Volume 40, Issue 2. December Press, 1998.
  • Katchmer, George A. Eighty Silent Film Stars: Biographies and Filmographies of the Obscure to the Well Known. McFarland, 1991.
  • Munden, Kenneth White. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press, 1997.
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