So's Your Old Man (original) (raw)
Poor glazier Sam Bisbee has invented break-proof glass. He intends to show it off to a convention of automobile men. Due to a mixup his car is switched with another and his demonstration toss of a brick simply breaks the car's windshield. On the way home he thinks a woman is trying to commit suicide and so prevents her. The woman is really Princess Lescaboura, who arrives in Bisbee's home town looking for him.
Film Details
Genre
Release Date
Oct 25, 1926
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
Famous Players--Lasky
Distribution Company
Paramount Pictures
Country
United States
Screenplay Information
Based on the novel Mr. Bisbee's Princess and Other Stories by Julian Leonard Street (Garden City, New York, 1925).
Technical Specs
Duration
1h 11m
Sound
Silent
Color
Black and White
Theatrical Aspect Ratio
1.33 : 1
Film Length
6,347ft (7 reels)
Synopsis
Waukegus, New Jersey, is a small town where Samuel Bisbee lives in a state of confused but devilish dilapidation. His daughter, Alice, is being courted by Kenneth Murchison, and on the afternoon that Mrs. Murchison comes to meet the apple of her son's eye, Old Sam stumbles in from his shop in the back, having partaken of sarsaparilla and spirits with some amiable cronies, and horrifies the orotund social heiress. He assures all that their tune will change when his newest invention--an unbreakable auto glass--is snapped up by a group of automen who are meeting in Washington and have asked Sam for a demonstration. He parks his flivver in front of the hotel, but his auto is displaced. Soon the committee follows him out, and Sam proceeds to bombard what he thinks is his chariot with bricks. Much to his chagrin, the glass in the car shatters into a jigsaw. Sam grabs a train for home; he contemplates suicide, but his vial of poison is broken. He then is jostled into the compartment of the lovely Spanish princess Lescaboura, and upon spying a bottle of iodine, reads his own thwarted intentions onto the princess and tries to salvage her spirits. Sam is spied on the train by some gossips and so slandered that he returns from his 3-day binge searching for the fortitude to face the Missus. He is wending his way home, having purchased a pony as a peace offering, when the town's elite and the princess overtake him, and she shows them his affectionate place in her heart. Sam is given the honor of blasting the first ball at the new country club opening, and when his glass is proven impervious, he wins a million-dollar contract. Smalltown lifeSocial classesGossipAutomobilesCountry clubsHorses
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Film Details
Genre
Release Date
Oct 25, 1926
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
Famous Players--Lasky
Distribution Company
Paramount Pictures
Country
United States
Screenplay Information
Based on the novel Mr. Bisbee's Princess and Other Stories by Julian Leonard Street (Garden City, New York, 1925).
Technical Specs
Duration
1h 11m
Sound
Silent
Color
Black and White
Theatrical Aspect Ratio
1.33 : 1
Film Length
6,347ft (7 reels)