Water, Water Everywhere


1920

Film Details

Release Date
Feb 1920
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
Goldwyn Pictures Corp.
Distribution Company
Goldwyn Distributing Corp.
Country
United States
Screenplay Information
Based on the novel Billy Fortune and the Hard Proposition by William Rheem Lighton (Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1912).

Technical Specs

Sound
Silent
Color
Black and White
Theatrical Aspect Ratio
1.33 : 1
Film Length
4,207ft (5 reels)

Synopsis

Cowboy Billy Fortune is in love with Hope Beecher, who prefers Billy's friend Ben Morgan, but resists his advances because of his fondness for drink. Hope's discontent is echoed by the town wives' public outcry against drink. To divert their interest, Billy is nominated to make love to their leader, widow Fay Bittinger, who has already disposed of four husbands. Failing at this task, Billy concludes that better results would occur if the men made club members jealous by converting the saloon into a soda fountain with pretty waitresses to serve soft drinks. His scheme has its desired effect, but Hope remains adamant in her demands for Morgan's reform. One day when the local mine explodes, Billy sobers his friend up and Morgan works so tirelessly to save the miners that he is finally able to renounce alcohol. Having thus solved all the town's problems, including saving Hope's sister Martha from hypocritical prohibitionist Arthur Gunther, Billy takes his father's advice to seek for a new sweetheart elsewhere.

Film Details

Release Date
Feb 1920
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
Goldwyn Pictures Corp.
Distribution Company
Goldwyn Distributing Corp.
Country
United States
Screenplay Information
Based on the novel Billy Fortune and the Hard Proposition by William Rheem Lighton (Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1912).

Technical Specs

Sound
Silent
Color
Black and White
Theatrical Aspect Ratio
1.33 : 1
Film Length
4,207ft (5 reels)

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Notes

This novel was serialized in The Saturday Evening Post. Some reviews call the character played by Roland Lee "Lyman Jennings Jordan."