🎬 Comedy, Drama

This Is the Life

"He Thinks It's All Part of the Show Until They Start to Shoot Him! AND THEN-THINGS FLY!"

1917 50m Dir. Raoul Walsh

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At his father’s insistence Billy Drake heads to the family’s South American ammunition company as an emissary. Before leaving, however, the movie-struck Billy spots a beautiful woman standing in front of a theater and imagines that she is a film star. To his delight, he finds the woman on board his ship, as well as political agitator Count Von Nuttenburg who has stolen a movie camera, thinking that it is a new brand of machine gun. Von Nuttenburg shows the camera to Billy. Thinking the Count is a director, and the ship a set for a movie melodrama when the boat lands at a port torn by revolution, Billy insists that the guns and soldiers are part of the show. Not until he and the girl are seized by the rebels and threatened with death, does he admit his error. By a clever ruse, he escapes from his captors and with the help of Federal troops defeats the Count and wins the heart of his pretty shipmate.

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Year
1917
Runtime
50m
Genre
Comedy, Drama
Director
Language
EN

Cast

🎭 Comedy 🎭 Drama 🎬 Raoul Walsh 👤 George Walsh 👤 Wanda Hawley 👤 James A. Marcus
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This Is the Life has a runtime of 50m ( and 50 minutes).
This Is the Life was directed by Raoul Walsh and released in 1917.
This Is the Life is a Comedy, Drama film (1917).
The cast of This Is the Life includes George Walsh, Wanda Hawley, James A. Marcus, Ralph Lewis, Jack McDonald.

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