Listen Lester (film)

Listen Lester
Listen Lester
	theatrical poster
Directed by	William A. Seiter
Written by	William A. Seiter; Lewis Milestone
Based on	Listen Lester (play); by Harry Linsley Cort and George E. Stoddard
Produced by	Carl Laemmle
Starring	Louise Fazenda; Harry Myers; Eva Novak; George O'Hara
Cinematography	John Stumar
Edited by	Owen Marks
Production; company	Sacramento Pictures
Distributed by	Principal Distributing Corporation
Release date	May 20, 1924 (USA theatrical);
Running time	60 minutes; 6 reels, 6242 feet
Country	United States
Language	English intertitles

Listen Lester is a 1924 black-and-white silent film drama/comedy film directed by William A. Seiter, with a screen adaptation by Lewis Milestone and William A. Seiter,^[1] based upon the 1918 stage play of the same name.^[2] Released by Universal Pictures on May 20, 1924, the film stars Louise Fazenda and Harry Myers.^[3]

Prints of the film exist in the Library of Congress film archive.^[4]

Plot

Widower Colonel Dodge (Alec B. Francis) enjoys being single, but when Arbutus Quilty (Louise Fazenda), his former sweetheart, threatens to sue him for breach of promise, he decides its time for him and his daughter Mary (Eva Novak) to take themselves a little vacation trip to Florida. Angry, Arbutus enlists the aid of lady detective Miss Pink (Dot Farley) and follows the two to Florida. At his hotel, the Colonel enlists the aid of the hotel detective Listen Lester (Harry Myers) to get back the incriminating love letters he had written to Arbutus. The detective accomplishes his task but is himself foiled when Miss Pink recovers the letters. A hotel clerk then gets them back, but in turn loses them back to Arbutus. Mary in the meantime is sparking up a romance with Jack Griffin (George O'Hara), but Jack believes that the Colonel is her beau instead of her father and declines involvement. In desperation, Arbustus enlists the aid of Lester to fake she and Mary getting kidnapped in the hope that this will bring the men to their senses. One of the fake kidnappers takes himself too seriously and gets a bit rough with Mary. Jack rescues the women and he and Mary reconcile. Out of ideas, Arbustus decides to stop chasing the Colonel. When the Colonel realizes how much he would miss her attentions, he discovers that he does love her after all. Both couples get married.

Cast

Louise Fazenda as Arbutus Quilty
Harry Myers as Listen Lester
Eva Novak as Mary Dodge
George O'Hara as Jack Griffin
Lee Moran as William Penn
Alec B. Francis as Colonel Dodge
Dot Farley as Miss Pink

References

^ "Listen Lester". CITWF. Retrieved May 24, 2011.
^ Edwin M. Bradley (2004). The First Hollywood Musicals: A Critical Filmography of 171 Features, 1927 Through 1932. McFarland. p. 323. ISBN 0-7864-2029-4.
^ Michael R. Pitts (2003). Famous movie detectives III. Vol. 3. Scarecrow Press. p. 286. ISBN 0-8108-3690-4.
^ "Listen Lester (1924)". silentera.com. Retrieved May 23, 2011.

External links

Listen Lester at IMDb

[1] "Listen Lester". CITWF. Retrieved May 24, 2011.

[2] Edwin M. Bradley (2004). The First Hollywood Musicals: A Critical Filmography of 171 Features, 1927 Through 1932. McFarland. p. 323. ISBN 0-7864-2029-4.

[3] Michael R. Pitts (2003). Famous movie detectives III. Vol. 3. Scarecrow Press. p. 286. ISBN 0-8108-3690-4.

[4] "Listen Lester (1924)". silentera.com. Retrieved May 23, 2011.

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