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As described in a film magazine review, a garage employee in a small town has an inventive mind and tries to interest a banker in a project to harness waterf...
Waking Up the Town is a 1925 American silent comedy film directed by James Cruze and written by Frank Condon and James Cruze. The film stars Jack Pickford, C...
"Waking Up The Town" was directed by the prolific James Cruze and starred Jim Joyce and Norma Shearer; the most remarkable aspect about this film is the story, a bizarre combination of sci-fi ( the most interesting aspect of the film due to Abner Hope's astronomical and surprising catastrophic predictions ) and romantic comedy ( predictable and naïf ) and in spite the copy that this German ...
Jim Joyce runs a garage with old Abner Hope. When Hope's granddaughter, Mary Ellen, comes to visit, Joyce falls in love with her. Joyce has a number of bizarre inventions and he dreams of harnessing the nearby falls for power, but he can't get any financing from the town banker.
- James Cruze
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Country. United States. Language. Silent (English intertitles) Waking Up the Town is a 1925 American silent comedy film directed by James Cruze and written by Frank Condon and James Cruze. The film stars Jack Pickford, Claire McDowell, Alec B. Francis, Norma Shearer, and Herbert Prior. The film was released on April 14, 1925, by United Artists.
Waking Up the Town: Directed by James Cruze. With Jack Pickford, Claire McDowell, Alec B. Francis, Norma Shearer. A young girl visits her grandfather, who owns an auto repair shop.
Jim Joyce runs a garage with old Abner Hope. When Hope's granddaughter, Mary Ellen, comes to visit, Joyce falls in love with her. Joyce has a number of bizarre inventions and he dreams of harnessing the nearby falls for power, but he can't get any financing from the town banker.
