Hawthorne of the U.S.A.
Cast & Crew
James Cruze
Wallace Reid
Lila Lee
Harrison Ford
Tully Marshall
Charles Ogle
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Synopsis
American law clerks Anthony Hamilton Hawthorne and Rodney Blake are nearly broke in Monte Carlo when Hawthorne breaks the bank. While driving through the impoverished kingdom of Bovinia, Hawthorne falls in love with a woman he meets when he retrieves his blown-off cap. Deciding to stay, Hawthorne is persuaded to finance a revolution until he learns that the woman he loves is Princess Irma and that she is in danger of being assassinated. After Hawthorne is jailed, accused of attempted assassination, he bribes the guards to let him escape with money hidden on himself. He then stops the mob from burning the palace by giving the soldiers their back pay. Because he establishes a thriving business at the country's medicinal springs, Bovinia greatly prospers. When the king declares the country a republic and abolishes all titles, Irma is free to marry Hawthorne.
Director
James Cruze
Cast
Wallace Reid
Lila Lee
Harrison Ford
Tully Marshall
Charles Ogle
Guy Oliver
Edwin Stevens
Clarence Burton
Theodore Roberts
Ruth Renick
Robert Brower
Frank Bonner
Crew
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Notes
Sources conflict concerning the cameraman for this film. Reviews list Frank Urson, while the continuity in Paramount studio records lists Charles F. Schoenbaum, and another source lists William Marshall. Douglas Fairbanks starred in the stage production of Hawthorne of the U.S.A..
