''Tramp, Tramp, Tramp'' is a 1926 American silent

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directed by Harry Edwards and starring

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and

Joan Crawford Joan Crawford (born Lucille Fay LeSueur; March 23, ncertain year from 1904 to 1908was an American actress. She started her career as a dancer in traveling theatrical companies before debuting on Broadway. Crawford was signed to a motion pict ...

Premise

The film tells of Harry (Langdon) a ne'er-do-well who falls in love with Betty (Crawford), a girl on a billboard. Harry participates in a cross country foot race hoping to win prize money in hopes of marrying her. Langdon wins the race when a tornado strikes near the finish line.Langdon is so innocently oblivious to it that he simply walks through the disaster while the other contestants run for cover.

Cast

as Harry *

as Betty Burton *

Edwards Davis Cader Edwards Davis (June 17, 1873 – May 16, 1936) was an American actor, producer, and playwright of vaudeville and the silent film era, known as a character actor. Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, he was an ordained Christian mi ...

as John Burton * Tom Murray as Nick Kargas *

Alec B. Francis Alec B. Francis (born Alec Francis Budd, 2 December 1867 – 6 July 1934) was an English actor, largely of the silent era. He appeared in more than 240 films between 1911 and 1934. Biography Francis was born in Suffolk, England. He studied law ...

as Amos Logan *

Brooks Benedict Brooks Benedict (born Harold J. Mann, February 6, 1896 – January 1, 1968) was an American actor of the silent and sound film eras, when he played supporting and utility roles in over 300 films, mostly uncredited. Life He was born to Alice Jul ...

as Taxi Driver *

Carlton Griffin Carlton Griffin (May 23, 1893 - July 24, 1940) was an American film actor. He appeared in over 50 films between the mid-1910s until 1940. In his first films, he was credited as C. Elliott Griffin or C. E. Griffin. He was born in New York, New Yo ...

as Roger Caldwell (uncredited)

Critical reception

In a recent review of the 1926 film, critic Maria Schneider wrote, "Langdon was most often cast as an oblivious innocent adrift in a corrupt world, a formula that made him terrifically popular in the mid-1920s...An acquired taste, Harry Langdon's gentle absurdities and slow rhythms take some getting used to, but patient viewers will be rewarded." The staff at ''

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'' gave the film a mixed review, writing, "An amusing and sunny outdoor comedy, ''Tramp, Tramp, Tramp'' seems weak only in comparison with Langdon's next feature, ''

The Strong Man ''The Strong Man'' is a 1926 American silent comedy film starring Harry Langdon. Along with ''Tramp, Tramp, Tramp'', ''The Strong Man'' is Langdon's best known film. Capra would also direct Langdon's next feature, '' Long Pants'' (1927), which ...

'' (1926), a much richer blend of laughs, thrills, and tears. Among the earlier film's deficiencies is an anemic story. The bulk of the movie is devoted to little more than a succession of pickles Harry gets himself into on his way west. Nothing is made of the fact that the Logans' landlord and the world walking champion are the same man. (If one isn't paying close attention, one may not be sure that they are the same man). And someone should have thought up a more humorous or exciting way for Harry to win the marathon; a viewer's reconstruction of the script would simply note that 'Harry wins the race.'"''TV Guide''
Film review, 2008.

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External links

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''Tramp, Tramp, Tramp''
at the Joan Crawford Encyclopedia

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