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The Wright Idea

10.019281h 10mMovieComedy

A chipper young inventor seems to have a stroke of good luck when an eccentric millionaire gives him a yacht as a gift… but the “millionaire” is really an escapee from an asylum and the yacht is being used to smuggle illicit spirits by a gang of bootleggers. Can’t win ‘em all…

DirectorCharles Hines
WriterJack Townley
ProducerC.C. Burr

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Cast · Directed by Charles Hines

Johnny Hines
Johnny Hines
Johnny Wright
Louise Lorraine
Louise Lorraine
Helen
Edmund Breese
Edmund Breese
Mr. Filbert
Fred Kelsey
Fred Kelsey
M. T. Flatt
Henry A. Barrows
Henry A. Barrows
Mr. Smoot
Henry Hebert
Henry Hebert
Mr. Stein
Walter James
Walter James
Captain Sandy

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