This Is the Life Trailer

This Is the Life Trailer (1917)

"He Thinks It's All Part of the Show Until They Start to Shoot Him! AND THEN-THINGS FLY!" 21 October 1917 Drama, Comedy 50 mins

At his father’s insistence Billy Drake heads to the family’s South American ammunition company as an emissary. Before leaving, however, the movie-struck Billy spots a beautiful woman standing in front of a theater and imagines that she is a film star. To his delight, he finds the woman on board his ship, as well as political agitator Count Von Nuttenburg who has stolen a movie camera, thinking that it is a new brand of machine gun. Von Nuttenburg shows the camera to Billy. Thinking the Count is a director, and the ship a set for a movie melodrama when the boat lands at a port torn by revolution, Billy insists that the guns and soldiers are part of the show. Not until he and the girl are seized by the rebels and threatened with death, does he admit his error. By a clever ruse, he escapes from his captors and with the help of Federal troops defeats the Count and wins the heart of his pretty shipmate.

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Cast

George Walsh

as Billy Drake

Wanda Hawley

as The Girl

James A. Marcus

as John T. Drake

Ralph Lewis

as Count Herman von Nuttenberg

Jack McDonald

as The Butler

William Ryno

as Drake's Secretary

Crew

Raoul Walsh

Director

Dal Clawson

Dal Clawson Director of Photography

International Releases Dates

United States 21 October 1917

Production Companies

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