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Naughty
(1927) United States of America
B&W : Six reels / 4667 feet
Directed by Hampton Del Ruth

Cast: Pauline Garon, Johnny Harron, Walter Hiers

Chadwick Pictures Corporation production; distributed by First Division Distributors, Incorporated. / Scenario by Hampton Del Ruth, from a screen story by Hampton Del Ruth. Cinematography by Ernest Miller. Intertitles written by Jean La’Ple. Presented by I.E. Chadwick. / Released 15 August 1927. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Silent film.

Comedy.

Synopsis: [Variety, 12 October 1927, page 21] A girl is told by a fortune-teller that she will go on a vacation, meet a doctor, fall in love with him and so on. She does. They are married by a burglar in a minister’s garb. They go home and the husband is called away by the very same burglar and a fat boy friend spends the night there, as hubby is out in a driving rain in his car. He and the wifey are shown together in several scenes, each in sleeping attire, pajamas to be explicit and a lead up to where the wife taps on the wall for the fat boy to come to her room. He does and even edges close to her bed at her request, only to be told there’s a man under the bed. Hubby returns. Friend is holding wifey who has fainted. The mistaken situation gag with the captured burglar helping straighten things.

Survival status: Print exists [16mm reduction positive].

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 2 December 2010.

References: Limbacher-Feature p. 170 : Website-AFI.

 
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