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Pop Tuttle’s Movie Queen
(1922) United States of America
B&W : Two reels
Directed by Robert Eddy

Cast: Dan Mason [Pop Tuttle], Wilna Hervey [Tillie Overton], Charles Gerson, Jamie Gray

The Paul Gerson Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Film Booking Offices of America, Incorporated [FBO] [A Plum Center Comedy]. / Produced by William A. Howell and Paul Gerson. Scenario by Al Giebler (A.H. Giebler). Cinematography by [?] Roy Vaughan or Roy Vaughn? / Released 10 September 1922. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The production was shot in Belmont, California. [?] Frank Capra may have worked on this film in one or all of these jobs: assistant director, editor, gag man and prop man.

Comedy.

Synopsis: [Exhibitors Herald, 16 September 1922, page ?] Pop Turtle drives the “bus that meets all trains” at Plum Centre, and also runs the only picture show in town. The Purity League is determined to wipe out Pop Tuttle’s “den of vice” but when he puts on a “special attraction” by rehearsing a jobless waitress and introduces her as a disciple of Hollywood, the townspeople and the reformers flock to get a glimpse of her.

Survival status: Print exists in the Harvard Film Archive film archive [16mm reduction positive].

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 5 December 2022.

References: FilmYearBook-1923 p. 197 : Website-IMDb.

 
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