The Cock-Eyed World is a 1929 American pre-Code musical comedy feature film. One of the earliest "talkies", it was a sequel to What Price Glory? (1926), it was directed and written by Raoul Walsh and based on the Flagg and Quirt story by Maxwell Anderson, Tom Barry, Wilson Mizner, and Laurence Stallings. Fox Film Corporation released the film at the Roxy in New York on August 3, 1929.[3]
| The Cock-Eyed World | |
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| Directed by | Raoul Walsh |
| Written by | Raoul Walsh William K. Wells Wilbur Morse Jr. Maxwell Anderson Wilson Mizner Laurence Stallings Tom Barry |
| Starring | Victor McLaglen Edmund Lowe Lili Damita |
| Cinematography | Arthur Edeson |
| Edited by | Jack Dennis |
| Distributed by | Fox Film Corporation |
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Running time | 118 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $2.7 million[1][2] |
The film stars Victor McLaglen and Edmund Lowe, reprising their original roles, as well as Lili Damita.[4] The picture was also released in a silent version on October 5, 1929.[5]
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Plot
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Flagg (Victor McLaglen) and Quirt (Edmund Lowe) find themselves transferred from Russia to Brooklyn to South America, in each place squaring off over a local beauty.
The film remains one of the earliest screen sequels to a critical and popular success with the two lead actors playing the same characters, as well as the original writers and director intact from the first picture.
Cast
edit- Victor McLaglen as Top Sergeant Flagg
- Edmund Lowe as Sergeant Harry Quirt
- Lili Damita as Mariana Elenita
- Leila Karnelly as Olga
- El Brendel as 'Yump' Olson
- Joe Brown as Brownie
- Stuart Erwin as Buckley
Opening week record
editAccording to Variety, the film beat every known gross for any box office attraction throughout the world with a reported first week gross of $173,391 at the Roxy.[6] It grossed another record $173,667 in its second week.[7]
See also
editReferences
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- ^ "WHICH CINEMA FILMS HAVE EARNED THE MOST MONEY SINCE 1914?". The Argus. Melbourne: National Library of Australia. March 4, 1944. p. 3 Supplement: The Argus Weekend magazine. Retrieved August 6, 2012.
- ^ Quigley Publishing Company "The All Time Best Sellers", International Motion Picture Almanac 1937-38 (1938) pg. 942; accessed April 19, 2014.
- ^ The American Film Institute Catalog
- ^ The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1921-30 by The American Film Institute, c. 1971
- ^ The Cock-Eyed World profile, silentera.com; accessed September 10, 2016.
- ^ "Fox's World High, $173,391" Variety, August 14, 1929 Page 9
- ^ Variety, August 21, 1929, p. 9.
External links
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- The Cock-Eyed World at the TCM Movie Database
- The Cock-Eyed World at IMDb
- The Cock-Eyed World at AllMovie
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