This Is the Life

Oct 21, 1917

0h 50m

★ 0.0

He Thinks It's All Part of the Show Until They Start to Shoot Him! AND THEN-THINGS FLY!

Overview

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.

Genres

Comedy

Drama

Production Companies

Fox Film Corporation

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Cast

Billy Drake

George Walsh

The Girl

Wanda Hawley

John T. Drake

James A. Marcus

Count Herman von Nuttenberg

Ralph Lewis

The Butler

Jack McDonald

Drake's Secretary

William Ryno

The Spy

Hector V. Sarno

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