Once Aboard the Lugger

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Once Aboard the Lugger
Directed by Gerald Ames
Gaston Quiribet
Starring E. Holman Clark
Eileen Dennes
Evan Thomas
Production
company
Distributed byImperial
Release date
October 1920
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguagesSilent
English intertitles

Once Aboard the Lugger is a 1920 British silent comedy film directed by Gerald Ames and Gaston Quiribet and starring E. Holman Clark, Eileen Dennes and Evan Thomas. [1]

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Plot

A hard-up student kidnaps his rich uncle's cat.

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References

  1. Goble p.894

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