The Galloper
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Cast & Crew
Donald Mackenzie
Clifton Crawford
Melville Stewart
Fania Marinoff
Jessie Ralph
Sam Ryan
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Synopsis
When the war between Turkey and Greece breaks out, Kirke Warren, a famous war correspondent who uses the nom-de-plume "The Galloper," leaves for Athens to escape his creditors and the grasp of Sybil, a wealthy brewer's widow to whom he proposed when his ex-wives' demands for alimony became pressing. Young American millionaire Copeland Schuyler, sailing to Africa to hunt big game to relieve his ennui, falls in love with Grace Whitney, who as a Red Cross nurse is going to Greece to find a hidden treasure for which her father, an archaeologist, was searching when he died. To escape a group of colonels of the Foreign Legion, whom he insulted, as well as his last ex-wife, Kirke relinquishes his role as The Galloper to Cope, who needs a journalist's identity to be near Grace at the front. After Cope experiences difficulties due to Kirke's past, and both he and Kirke are nearly executed because the Greeks did not appreciate The Galloper's reporting of their last war, Cope and Grace become engaged, while Kirke and his ex-wife are reunited.
Director
Donald Mackenzie
Cast
Clifton Crawford
Melville Stewart
Fania Marinoff
Jessie Ralph
Sam Ryan
Rhye Alexander
David Burton
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Raymond Hitchcock starred in the play. A musical comedy entitled The Yankee Tourist based on the play, with lyrics by Wallace Irvin, and music by Alfred G. Robyn, William Jerome and Jean Schwartz opened in New York on August 12, 1907. Raymond Hitchcock, Flora Zabelle, Wallace Beery and Phillips Smalley appeared in the musical. The film was the first "Gold Rooster Play," which was the trademark for Pathé Features.
