The Nutcracker (1926 film)
{{short description|1926 film}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = The Nutcracker
| image = The Nutcracker (1926) - 1.jpg
| caption = Still with Horton and Busch
| director =Lloyd Ingraham
| producer =
|based_on = {{basedon|The Nut Cracker|Frederic S. Isham}}
| writer = Madge Myton
| narrator =
| starring = Edward Everett Horton
Mae Busch
Harry Myers
| music =
| cinematography =Jack MacKenzie
| editing =
| studio =Samuel S. Hutchinson Productions
| distributor = Associated Exhibitors
Ideal Films (UK)
| released = {{film date|1926|03|28}}
| runtime =60 minutes
| country = United States
| language = Silent (English intertitles)
| budget =
| gross =
}}
File:The Nut-Cracker ad in Motion Picture News (March 6, 1926 to April 24, 1926) (page 11 crop).jpg, 1926]]
The Nutcracker (also written as The Nut-Cracker) is a 1926 American silent comedy film directed by Lloyd Ingraham and starring Edward Everett Horton, Mae Busch, and Harry Myers.Munden p. 556Connelly p. 191 It was based on the 1920 novel The Nut Cracker by Frederic S. Isham.[https://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/N/NutCracker1926.html Progressive Silent Film List: The Nutcracker] at silentera.com
Plot
As described in a film magazine review,{{Citation |last=Elliott |first=Frank |author-link= |title=Pre-Release Review of Features: The Nutcracker |journal=Motion Picture News |volume=33 |issue=16 |pages=1836 |date=17 April 1926 |publisher=Motion Picture News, Inc. |location=New York City, New York |url=https://archive.org/details/motionnews33moti/page/n821/mode/1up |access-date=20 April 2023}} {{Source-attribution}} Horatio Slipaway is henpecked at home by his wife Martha while in her gingham apron and abused at his office. He flees from home to escape his domineering wife and is injured by a streetcar. Awakening in a hospital, he is given $500 to settle the accident case. He feigns amnesia and, pretending he has lost all of his memory, gives his name as Pete Peters of Peru. He takes a flyer in the stock market when he saunters into a broker's office and cleans up by buying the lowest-quoted stock on the board and wins a fortune. Horatio takes an apartment, furnished a la Peru. He holds a reception which is attended by his wife whom he falls in love with again but keeps up his new role. Eventually his identity is discovered by his wife. Determined to make her husband "come out of it," she has him kidnapped and arranges for three surgeons to be waiting for him at his old home. Threatened with an operation to restore memory, he admits that he is Horatio. A happy reunion ensues.
Cast
{{castlist|
- Edward Everett Horton as Horatio Slipaway
- Mae Busch as Martha Slipaway
- Harry Myers as Oscar Briggs
- Tom Ricketts as Isaac Totten
- Martha Mattox as Julia Trotten
- George Kuwa as Saki
- Katherine Lewis as Hortense
- Albert Prisco as Señor Gonzales
- George Periolat as Señor Gómez
}}
Preservation
With no prints of The Nutcracker located in any film archives,[https://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.7912/ Library of Congress / FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: The Nut-Cracker] it is a lost film.
References
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Bibliography
- Connelly, Robert B. The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36, Volume 40, Issue 2. December Press, 1998.
- Munden, Kenneth White. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press, 1997.
External links
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- {{IMDb title|0017215}}
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Category:1920s English-language films
Category:American silent feature films
Category:Silent American comedy films
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:Films directed by Lloyd Ingraham
Category:Associated Exhibitors films
Category:English-language comedy films
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