Forty Winks
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Directed byPaul Iribe
Frank Urson
Screenplay byBertram Millhauser
Based onthe play Lord Chumley
by David Belasco and Henry Churchill de Mille
StarringRaymond Griffith
Theodore Roberts
Cyril Chadwick
William Boyd
Anna May Wong
CinematographyJ. Peverell Marley
Production
company
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release date
  • February 2, 1925 (1925-02-02)
Running time
70 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)

Forty Winks is a lost 1925 American silent comedy film directed by Paul Iribe and Frank Urson and written by Bertram Millhauser. The film stars Raymond Griffith, Theodore Roberts, Cyril Chadwick, William Boyd, and Anna May Wong.[1][2] The film was released on February 2, 1925, by Paramount Pictures.[3]

Plot

As described in a review in a film magazine,[4] Gasper Le Sage (Chadwick) is attorney to the Butterworths and suitor for the hand of Eleanor Butterworth (Dana). He persuades Annabelle Wu (Wong), a Eurasian adventuress, to vamp Lt. Gerald Hugh Butterworth (Boyd) and with his keys obtain the plans for a coast defence movement. Suspicion falls upon Lord Chumley of the British secret service, who is also engaged to Eleanor. Le Sage offers to recover the papers if Eleanor will marry him, but "Chumley" forestalls him and gets the papers and wins the young woman's affections after a lively and variagated chase.

Cast

Preservation

With no prints of Forty Winks located in any film archives,[5] it is a lost film.

References

  1. ↑ Janiss Garza (2015). "Forty-Winks - Trailer - Cast - Showtimes - NYTimes.com". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on February 5, 2015. Retrieved February 4, 2015.
  2. ↑ "Forty Winks". afi.com. Retrieved February 4, 2015.
  3. ↑ "Forty Winks". Progressive Silent Film List. silentera.com. August 2, 2009. Retrieved March 12, 2015.
  4. ↑ Sargent, Epes W. (February 14, 1925). "Forty Winks; An Honorable Old Play Is Clowned into a Fast-Moving Farce in this Paramount Feature". The Moving Picture World. New York City: Chalmers Publishing Co. 72 (7): 700. Retrieved September 4, 2021.
  5. ↑ Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: Forty Winks
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