When the Clouds Roll by (1919)
Comedy | 29 December 1919
Director:
Victor FlemingWriters:
Thomas Geraghty , Douglas FairbanksProduction Designer:
Edward M. LangleyProduction Company:
Douglas Fairbanks Pictures Corp.Many contemporary reviews and trade articles credited Louis Weadock (misspelled Louis Weadon in the reviews) as co-author of the story and scenario with Douglas Fairbanks and Thomas Geraghty, but the Fairbanks organization issued a statement in early 1920 that Weadock did not contribute to either story or scenario. The production built a reservoir holding two million gallons of water and a city two miles in length at the foothills of the Cascade Mountains in Northern California for the film's climactic flood scene.
According to the Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database, this film is extant. A 35mm copy of When the Clouds Roll By was screened at the Kansas Silent Film Festival in Topeka, KS, on 25 February 2005. ...
Many contemporary reviews and trade articles credited Louis Weadock (misspelled Louis Weadon in the reviews) as co-author of the story and scenario with Douglas Fairbanks and Thomas Geraghty, but the Fairbanks organization issued a statement in early 1920 that Weadock did not contribute to either story or scenario. The production built a reservoir holding two million gallons of water and a city two miles in length at the foothills of the Cascade Mountains in Northern California for the film's climactic flood scene.
According to the Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database, this film is extant. A 35mm copy of When the Clouds Roll By was screened at the Kansas Silent Film Festival in Topeka, KS, on 25 February 2005.
When New Yorker Daniel Boone Brown becomes the unwitting subject of Dr. Metz's hypnotic experiments, his job in his uncle's brokerage office is threatened. Daniel attributes his ill luck to an opal ring, so he throws it away in the park, where it is picked up by Lucette Bancroft, with whom Daniel promptly falls in love. Former suitor Mark Drake schemes to gain possession of Oklahoma oil interests owned by Lucette's father, but Daniel chases after Mark and Lucette, and manages to win her back. Later Daniel and Lucette are on a train that is swept away by a massive flood. When the two take refuge on a drifting roof, a minister floats by, and marries ...
When New Yorker Daniel Boone Brown becomes the unwitting subject of Dr. Metz's hypnotic experiments, his job in his uncle's brokerage office is threatened. Daniel attributes his ill luck to an opal ring, so he throws it away in the park, where it is picked up by Lucette Bancroft, with whom Daniel promptly falls in love. Former suitor Mark Drake schemes to gain possession of Oklahoma oil interests owned by Lucette's father, but Daniel chases after Mark and Lucette, and manages to win her back. Later Daniel and Lucette are on a train that is swept away by a massive flood. When the two take refuge on a drifting roof, a minister floats by, and marries them.
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