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The Wright Idea

19281h 10mCharles Hines

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"Girls, Giggles and Gags! Love Larks and Laughs! With Johnny's inimitable pep just oozing right out of the screen into your heart!"

A chipper young inventor seems to have a stroke of good luck when an eccentric millionaire gives him a yacht as a gift… but the “millionaire” is really an escapee from an asylum and the yacht is being used to smuggle illicit spirits by a gang of bootleggers. Can’t win ‘em all…

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What is The Wright Idea (1928) about?

A chipper young inventor seems to have a stroke of good luck when an eccentric millionaire gives him a yacht as a gift… but the “millionaire” is really an escapee from an asylum and the yacht is being used to smuggle illicit spirits by a gang of bootleggers. Can’t win ‘em all…

Who stars in The Wright Idea?

The Wright Idea stars Johnny Hines (Johnny Wright), Louise Lorraine (Helen), Edmund Breese (Mr. Filbert), Fred Kelsey (M. T. Flatt), Henry A. Barrows (Mr. Smoot). The film was directed by Charles Hines.

How long is The Wright Idea?

The Wright Idea has a runtime of 1 min and premiered in 1928.

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