Laughing at Danger (1924 film)

Laughing at Danger
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Directed by	James W. Horne
Written by	Frank Howard Clark
Starring	Richard Talmadge Joseph W. Girard Eva Novak
Cinematography	William Marshall
Production companies	Carlos Productions Truart Film Corporation
Distributed by	Film Booking Offices of America
Release date	November 23, 1924 (1924-11-23)
Running time	54 minutes
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

Laughing at Danger is a 1924 American silent action film directed by James W. Horne and starring Richard Talmadge, Joseph W. Girard, and Eva Novak.^[1]^[2]

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Plot

As described in a review in a film magazine,^[3] a love affair makes Alan Remington (Talmadge) dissatisfied with life. Trying to lift his son out of despondency, his father Cyrus (Girard) devises various means of excitement. Crooks seek to steal a death ray machine which the elder Remington is sponsoring and circumstance involves Alan in the subsequent excitement. Thinking it is only a trick of his father's, he takes danger lightly. The inventor Professor Leo Hollister (Harrington) and his daughter Carolyn (Novak) are captured and, with the machine, imprisoned in a hut on a lonely hill. Alan goes to the rescue. Naval vessels are warned that the desperadoes intend to blow them up with the death ray and turn their guns on the hut and destroy it. Alan leaps to safety in the nick of time.

Cast

Richard Talmadge as Alan Remington
Joseph W. Girard as Cyrus Remington
Joseph Harrington as Professor Leo Hollister
Eva Novak as Carolyn Hollister
Stanhope Wheatcroft as Darwin Kershaw
Bull Montana as Killer Murphy

Preservation

Prints of Laughing at Danger are held in the collections of the Gosfilmofond in Moscow and UCLA Film and Television Archive.^[4]

References

^ Munden p. 423
^ Progressive Silent Film List: Laughing at Danger at silentera.com
^ Smith, Sumner (December 20, 1924). "Laughing at Danger; Richard Talmadge Shows Great Improvement in Striking F.B.O. Thriller". 71 (8). New York City: Chalmers Publishing Co.: 725. Retrieved June 27, 2021. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
^ Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: Laughing at Danger

Bibliography

Munden, Kenneth White. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press, 1997.