''Cruise of the Jasper B'' is a 1926 American silent action/adventure comedy film produced by

Cecil B. DeMille Cecil Blount DeMille (; August 12, 1881January 21, 1959) was an American film director, producer and actor. Between 1914 and 1958, he made 70 features, both silent and sound films. He is acknowledged as a founding father of the American cine ...

and directed by James W. Horne. The film is loosely based on the 1916 novel of the same name by American poet

Don Marquis Donald Robert Perry Marquis ( ; July 29, 1878 – December 29, 1937) was an American humorist, journalist, and author. He was variously a novelist, poet, newspaper columnist, and playwright. He is remembered best for creating the characters Ar ...

, although the film adaptation and novel share little in common.''The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1921-30'' by The American Film Institute, c. 1971

Plot

The film stars actor Rod La Rocque as 'Jerry Cleggert', a good-natured descendant of an 18th-century pirate who resides aboard the rickety ship ''Jasper B''. Cleggert is informed that in order to inherit a large inheritance, he must marry on his twenty-fifth birthday - otherwise he would relinquish all claims to his impending fortune. Jerry soon meets his ideal would-be bride Agatha Fairhaven (

Mildred Harris Mildred Harris (April 18, 1901 – July 20, 1944) was an American stage, film, and vaudeville actress during the early part of the 20th century. Harris began her career in the film industry as a child actress when she was 10 years old. She was a ...

) and the two immediately fall in love. Complications arise when the dastardly Reginald Maltravers (

Snitz Edwards Snitz Edwards (born Edward Neumann, 1 January 1868 – 1 May 1937) was a stage and character actor of the early years of the silent film A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialog ...

) attempts to cheat Agatha out of her inheritance. The courting couple suffer a series of mishaps on the way to altar; they are waylaid en route by a trio of bandits, escape from a runaway taxi cab, and outrun a mob of unscrupulous state authorities. The weary couple finally manage to wed just before the deadline on board the ''Jasper B'' and Cleggert inherits his family fortune.

Cast

* Rod La Rocque - Jerry Cleggett *

- Agatha Fairhaven *

- Reginald Maltravers * Jack Ackroyd - Wiggins *

Otto Lederer Otto Lederer (April 17, 1886 – September 3, 1965) was a Czech-American film actor. He appeared in 120 films between 1912 and 1933, most notably ''The Jazz Singer'', the first full-length film to have sound sequences, and the Laurel and H ...

- Auctioneer * James T. Mack - Assistant Auctioneer *

Billy Engle Billy Engle (May 28, 1889 – November 28, 1966) was an Austro-Hungarian Empire-born American film actor. He appeared in more than 250 films between 1917 and 1957. He was born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire and died in Hollywood, California ...

- Little Mover * Charlie Hall - Mover *

Fred Kelsey Frederick Alvin Kelsey (August 20, 1884 – September 2, 1961) was an American actor, film director, and screenwriter. Kelsey directed one- and two-reel films for Universal Film Manufacturing Company. He appeared in more than 400 films be ...

- Bailiff *

Tiny Sandford Stanley J. "Tiny" Sandford (February 26, 1894October 29, 1961) was an American actor who is best remembered for his roles in Laurel and Hardy and Charlie Chaplin films. His tall, burly physique usually led him to be cast as a comic heavy, and o ...

- Big Mover

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BFI listing
1926 films American silent feature films 1926 adventure films American black-and-white films Films based on American novels American action adventure films Producers Distributing Corporation films Adaptations of works by Don Marquis Films directed by James W. Horne 1920s American films Silent adventure films {{action-adventure-film-stub

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