A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2024 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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	Lloyd Hamilton (left) and John Wayne (sitting at counter). Frame enlargement: Silent Era image collection.

Cast: Lloyd Hamilton [Chester, the soda jerk], Lucille Hutton [the jerk’s sweetheart], Kewpie Morgan [the fitness club manager], Duke Morrison (John Wayne) [the man sitting at the counter during the spoon licking], [?] ? [Chester’s mother], [?] ? [the second soda jerk], [?] ? [the man hit by ice cream], [?] ? [the jolly fat man], [?] ? [his laughing friend], [?] ? [the man who orders pancakes], [?] ? [the cook], [?] ? [the bearded man]

Lloyd Hamilton Corporation production; distributed by Educational Film Exchanges, Incorporated. / Scenario by Norman Taurog. Presented by E.W. Hammons. / Released 17 July 1928. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The film was released in the United Kingdom by Ideal Films, Limited. / Silent film.

Comedy.

Survival status: Print exists in the private film collection of Robin Cook [16mm reduction positive (UK release version)].

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Dishes (Broken) - Fitness clubs - Food: Bananas, Coffee, Doughnuts (Dunking), Eggs, Milk, Pancakes, Pickles, Soup, Sundaes, Tomatoes - Gymnasiums: Equipment (Barbells, Boxing gloves, Indian clubs, Jump rope, Punching bags, Rings, Sparring dummies) - Levers - Signage - Soda fountains: Counters, Soda jerks, Stools - Special effects: Split-screens - Sports: Boxers

Listing updated: 22 February 2024.

References: Film viewing : Website-IMDb.

Home video: DVD.