''Smilin' at Trouble'' is a 1925 American silent

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directed by

Harry Garson Harry Garson (1882 – September 21, 1938) was an American film director. He directed 30 films between 1920 and 1934, and produced 11 films before that. He was born in Rochester, New York, and died in Los Angeles, California. Selected filmo ...

and starring Maurice 'Lefty' Flynn,

Helen Lynch Helen Lynch (April 6, 1900 – March 2, 1965) was an American silent film actress, mainly known for her roles playing gun molls and other morally dubious characters. Biography Lynch was born on April 6, 1900 in Billings, Montana, where she wa ...

and

Kathleen Myers Kathleen Myers (April 16, 1899 – September 27, 1959) was an American film actress of the silent era. Biography Myers was the daughter of S. C. Myers, manager of Chrome Steel Works in Newark, New Jersey. Appearing in 22 feature films between 19 ...

.Katchmer p. 293

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took place around San Pedro and at a

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construction site, likely the Pit 3 Dam in

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Plot

As described in a film magazine review, Michael Arnold, a wealthy contractor who hopes to crash into high society with the aid of Lafaette Van Renselaer, a worthless and dishonest aristocratic youth he carried on a dam construction job, engages a young

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Jerry Foster to help him over several structural difficulties in the work. The engineer falls in love with his employer's daughter Alice, and she returns his affection until she believes him to be in love with another woman. The dishonest youth's success in having used inferior cement in the dam results in a flood in which he is drowned. The engineer saves his employer's daughter from death and he and she are wed.

Cast

References

Bibliography

* Connelly, Robert B. ''The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36, Volume 40, Issue 2''. December Press, 1998. * Katchmer, George A. ''Eighty Silent Film Stars: Biographies and Filmographies of the Obscure to the Well Known''. McFarland, 1991. * 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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