Love Makes ’em Wild
(1927) United States of America
B&W : Six reels / 5508 feet
Directed by Albert Ray
Cast: Johnny Harron [Willie Angle], Sally Phipps [Mary O’Shane], Ben Bard [Blankenship], Arthur Housman [Charlie Austin], J. Farrell MacDonald [W. Barden], Natalie Kingston [Mamie], Albert Gran [Green], Florence Gilbert [Lulu], Earle Mohan [Sam], Coy Watson Jr. [Jimmy], Noah Young [the janitor], William B. Davidson [Mamie’s exhusband]
Fox Film Corporation production; distributed by Fox Film Corporation. / Scenario by Harold Shumate, from the short story “Willie the Worm” by Florence Ryerson. Assistant director, Horace Hough. Cinematography by Chester Lyons. Presented by William Fox. / © 13 March 1927 by Fox Film Corporation [LP23833]. Released 6 March 1927. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Silent film.
Comedy-Drama.
Synopsis: [The Moving Picture World, 19 March 1927, page 213] Willie, a spineless office plodder, is told by quack doctors that he will die in six months, so he proceeds to even up scores with those who have bullied him. A real doctor tells him that the only thing the matter with his heart is love and he proceeds to marry the girl.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 27 December 2008.
References: AFI-F2 n. F2.3234 : ClasIm-220 p. 43.
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