The Galloping Fish
{{Short description|1924 film directed by Del Andrews}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=September 2020}}
{{Infobox film
| name = The Galloping Fish
| image = Galloping Fish (1924).jpg
| caption = Lobby card
| director = Del Andrews
| producer =
| writer = Will Lambert (adaptation)
| screenplay =
| based_on = {{basedon|Friend Wife|Frank R. Adams}}
| starring = Louise Fazenda
Syd Chaplin
Ford Sterling
Chester Conklin
Lucille Ricksen
John Steppling
| music =
| cinematography = Max Dupont
Conrad Wells
| editing =
| studio = Thomas H. Ince Corporation
| distributor = First National Pictures
| released = {{film date|1924|3|10}}
| runtime = 46 minutes
| country = United States
| language = Silent (English intertitles)
| budget =
| gross =
}}
The Galloping Fish is a 1924 American silent comedy film directed by Del Andrews and starring Louise Fazenda, Syd Chaplin, Ford Sterling, Chester Conklin, Lucille Ricksen, and John Steppling. It is based on the 1917 novel Friend Wife by Frank R. Adams.Munsey's Magazine, Volume 59, p. 7, c.1917 The Frank A. Munsey Company The film was released by First National Pictures on March 10, 1924.{{cite web|url=https://www.allmovie.com/movie/galloping-fish-v92578|title=The Galloping Fish|work=AllMovie|accessdate=January 13, 2018}}{{cite web|url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/493812/galloping-fish|title=The Galloping Fish|work=Turner Classic Movies|access-date=January 13, 2018}}
The film was later re-released by Selected Pictures in 1930 with talking sequences.{{cite web|url=https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/9271|title=The Galloping Fish|work=afi.com|accessdate=January 13, 2018}}
Plot
As described in a film magazine review,{{cite journal |last=Pardy |first=George T. |title=Box Office Reviews: The Galloping Fish |journal=Exhibitors Trade Review |volume= |issue= |pages=26 |publisher=Exhibitors Review Publishing Corporation |date=5 April 1924 |location=New York |url=https://archive.org/details/exhibi00newy/page/n377/mode/1up |accessdate=2 November 2022}} {{Source-attribution}} Freddie, a trained seal, is smuggled out of a theatre using an ambulance by George Fitzgerald, the fiancé of his owner, Undine, a vaudeville performer, to escape seizure for debt. Freddy Wetherill, George's friend, assists. The latter is notified that his rich uncle is dying and wants Wetherill's wife Hyla to nurse him. But the husband and wife have quarreled, so Undine substitutes for the wife and is accompanied by George, as Wetherill's valet. A flood engulfs the uncle's house. The occupants seek the roof, where escaping animals from a circus also find refuge. They are all finally rescued by the seal, who conveys them ashore with the aid of a telegraph pole.
Cast
{{Cast listing|
- Louise Fazenda as Undine
- Syd Chaplin as Freddy Wetherill
- Ford Sterling as George Fitzgerald
- Chester Conklin as Jonah
- Lucille Ricksen as Hyla Wetherill
- John Steppling as Cato Dodd
- Freddie the Seal as The Trained Seal
- Willie Aligator as The Aligtaor (uncredited)
- Lloyd Ingraham as Process Server (uncredited)
- Eugene Pallette as Anti-Volstead Esquire (uncredited)
- Truly Shattuck as Mrs. Dodd (uncredited)
}}
Preservation
Prints of the film survive at the Filmoteka Narodowa in Warsaw, Poland and Cineteca Italiana in Milan, Italy.[http://lcweb2.loc.gov:8081/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.5520/default.html American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: The Galloping Fish]
References
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External links
{{Commons category|Galloping Fish}}
- {{IMDb title|id=0014934|title=The Galloping Fish}}
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Category:1920s English-language films
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:American silent feature films
Category:English-language comedy films
Category:Films based on American novels
Category:Films directed by Del Andrews
Category:First National Pictures films
Category:Silent American comedy films
Category:Surviving American silent films
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