The Wright Idea

The Wright Idea

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

1928 · 70 min · ★ 10.0 · Comedy

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…

Directed by Charles Hines · Written by Jack Townley

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