Name: Barnum Was Right
Genre: Adaptation, Drama
Released: 1929
Duration: 55 s
Cast: Glenn Tryon, Merna Kennedy, Otis Harlan, Basil Radford, Clarence Burton

Cast & Crew

Film Details

Genre

Adaptation

Drama

Release Date

Sep 22, 1929

Premiere Information

not available

Production Company

Universal Pictures

Country

United States

Screenplay Information

Based on the play Barnum Was Right by Philip Bartholomae, John Meehan (New York, 12 Mar 1923).

Technical Specs

Duration

55m

Film Length

5,140ft (5 reels)

Synopsis

Samuel Locke, a businessman, promises to give his daughter, Miriam, in marriage to Freddie Farrell if he will fulfill his promise to make the Locke mansion, an aging estate in the middle of a swamp, into a profitable investment. Farrell turns the place into a high-priced hotel and revives the legend that there is buried treasure on the property. Finally, he relaxes and watches the guests tear the place apart. An explosion set by one of the visitors lifts the roof off the mansion, revealing the "treasure" (a box of jewels hidden for safekeeping by a burglar). The explosion and the continual digging around the place cause the ocean to enter and create valuable shoreline property out of the Locke estate.