Cruise of the Jasper B

Cruise of the Jasper B
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Directed by	James W. Horne
Written by	Tay Garnett John W. Krafft Zelda Sears (screenplay)
Based on	Cruise of the Jasper B by Don Marquis
Produced by	Cecil B. DeMille
Starring	Rod La Rocque Mildred Harris Snitz Edwards Jack Ackroyd
Distributed by	Producers Distributing Corporation
Release date	December 13, 1926 (1926-12-13)
Running time	60 minutes; 6 reels (5,780 feet)
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)n̪

Cruise of the Jasper B is a 1926 American silent action comedy film produced by Cecil B. DeMille and directed by James W. Horne. The film is loosely based on the 1916 novel of the same name by American poet Don Marquis, although the film adaptation and novel share little in common.^[1][2][3]

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), and the two immediately fall in love. Complications arise when the dastardly Reginald Maltravers (Snitz Edwards) 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 as Jerry Cleggett
• Mildred Harris as Agatha Fairhaven
• Snitz Edwards as Reginald Maltravers
• Jack Ackroyd as Wiggins
• Otto Lederer as Auctioneer
• James T. Mack as Assistant Auctioneer
• Billy Engle as Little Mover
• Charlie Hall as Mover
• Fred Kelsey as Bailiff
• Tiny Sandford as Big Mover

Preservation

Prints of Cruise of the Jasper B are in the collections of the Library of Congress, Archives Du Film Du CNC, UCLA Film and Television Archive, and George Eastman Museum Motion Picture Collection.^[4]

See also

• Paradise for Two, a 1927 film about inheritance
• Five and Ten Cent Annie (1928); a similar themed lost movie

References

1. "The Life and Times of Don Marquis". Archived from the original on December 13, 2006. Retrieved December 28, 2006. Don Marquis: His Life and Times.
2. Progressive Silent Film List: The Cruise of the Jasper B at silentera.com
3. The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1921-30 by The American Film Institute, c. 1971
4. Library of Congress / FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: Cruise of the Jasper B

External links

• Cruise of the Jasper B at IMDb
• BFI listing
• Cruise of the Jasper B (1926) on YouTube