Name: One Glorious Day
Released: 1922
Cast: Will Rogers, Lila Lee, Alan Hale, John Fox, George Nichols

Brief Synopsis

Ek is a disembodied spirit, required to wait his turn in the boring cosmos until he is allowed to inhabit an earthly body. Impatient, he sneaks off to earth to find a body and, after several failed attempts, finds Professor Ezra Botts, a timid old pedant and researcher of psychic phenomena. Life fairly well kicks Professor Botts around as it does all timid souls, and he gets little love or respect. But during an experimental trance, he is able to leave his body behind and at that moment, Ek sees his chance and slips in, taking over the professor's body. The "new" professor is energetic, charismatic, and dynamic, and from the limbo in which he floats, the real professor fears that Ek is going to wear out the tired old body before he, Botts, can return to it. And just how is he supposed to get back into his body, anyway?

Cast & Crew

Film Details

Also Known As

Ek

Release Date

Feb 5, 1922

Premiere Information

not available

Production Company

Famous Players--Lasky

Distribution Company

Paramount Pictures

Country

United States

Technical Specs

Sound

Silent

Color

Black and White

Film Length

5,100ft (5 reels)

Synopsis

Professor Botts, a meek psychology professor, who is secretly in love with Molly McIntyre, his housekeeper's daughter, tells the spiritualist society of which he is chairman that he will leave his body, go into a trance, and reappear in a spiritual form. When "Ek"--a spirit with aggressive tendencies--enters his body, the professor surprises the entire town by thrashing some scheming politicians who have threatened him, and then, slightly intoxicated, he whips Ben Wadley, a scoundrel who has designs on Molly. When the spirit "Ek" leaves his body and the spirit of the professor again enters its fleshly form, Ezra learns that Molly loves him--although he cannot remember any of the events that occurred during his trance--and he is nominated for mayor.