The Love Thrill (1927)
4583-11 Tom Moore and Laura La Plante.
4583-74 Bryant Washburn, Laura La Plante, Tom Moore, and Jocelyn Lee
"The Love Thrill"
Breezy and Amusing Entertainment Offered In Farce Comedy Starring Laura La Plante
Carl Laemmle presents
Laura La Plante in
"The Love Thrill"
With Tom Moore and Bryant Washburn
Directed by Millard Webb
A Universal-Jewel Production
CAST:
| Joyce Bragdon | Laura La Plante |
| Jack | Tom Moore |
| Creelman | Bryant Washburn |
| Paula | Jocelyn Lee |
| Bragdon | Arthur Hoyt |
| Solomon | Nat Carr |
| Sharpe | Charles F. Smiles |
Length - 6,038 Feet.
Jack, African explorer, is reported killed and Joyce, in order to get to his rich friend Creelman to sell him insurance poses as Jack's widow. Jack's return alive complicates matters but the difficulty is finally solved when she becomes Jack's wife. Amusing farce.
A LIGHT BUT decidedly amusing farce comedy that offers a pleasant hour' entertainment for the average patron is "The Love Thrill" a Universal-Jewel production starring Laura La Plante.
With characteristic farce comedy disregard of probabilities we find the star as the daughter of of an almost bankrupt insurance agent posing as the wife of an explorer who is reported as having been killed in Africa. Her object is to meet the explorer's millionaire friend and sell him a big policy. With feminine cleverness she succeeds but, the explorer returns under an assumed name and does not reveal his identity until he is satisfied that she is willing to be his real wife instead of his fake widow.
Where are a number of bright and amusing situations developed from the fact that both the supposed husband and wife are occupying the same apartment unawares and in the complications with the millionaire friend as well in the situations where the hero humor the joke. While they are of a familiar type, the smooth direction of Millard Webb and the good comedy work of Miss La Plante, Owen Moore as the explorer and Bryant Washburn as the millionaire result in a number of smiles and chuckles.
While not one of the stars' best vehicles, it should please generally as light entertainment.
-- Moving Picture World, May 21, 1927, p. 212
With Laura La Plante, Tom Moore, and Bryant Washburn. Directed by Millard Webb. Universal.
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