Smilin' at Trouble

Smilin' at Trouble
Smilin' at Trouble
	Lobby card
Directed by	Harry Garson
Written by	Barry Barringer ; Gertrude Orr ; Rob Wagner
Produced by	Harry Garson
Starring	Maurice 'Lefty' Flynn ; Helen Lynch ; Kathleen Myers
Cinematography	Gilbert Warrenton
Production; company	Harry Garson Productions
Distributed by	Film Booking Offices of America
Release date	December 6, 1925;
Running time	60 minutes
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

Last updated September 15, 2025

Smilin' at Trouble is a 1925 American silent Western film directed by Harry Garson and starring Maurice 'Lefty' Flynn, Helen Lynch and Kathleen Myers.^[1] Location shooting took place around San Pedro and at a dam construction site, likely the Pit 3 Dam in Northern California.

Plot

As described in a film magazine review,^[2] Michael Arnold, a wealthy contractor who hopes to crash into high society with the aid of Lafaette Van Renselaer, a worthless and dishonest aristocratic youth he carried on a dam construction job, engages a young civil engineer Jerry Foster to help him over several structural difficulties in the work. The engineer falls in love with his employer's daughter Alice, and she returns his affection until she believes him to be in love with another woman. The dishonest youth's success in having used inferior cement in the dam results in a flood in which he is drowned. The engineer saves his employer's daughter from death and he and she are wed.

Cast

Maurice 'Lefty' Flynn as Jerry Foster
Helen Lynch as Alice Arnold
Ray Ripley as Lafaette Van Renselaer
Lee Shumway as Swazey
Charles McHugh as Clancey O'Toole
Hal Wilson as Michael Arnold
Kathleen Myers as Kathleen O'Toole
Ray Turner as Colored Boy
Joe O'Brien as Tom

References

↑ Katchmer p. 293
↑ "New Pictures: Smilin' at Trouble". Exhibitors Herald. 24 (2). Chicago: Exhibitors Herald Co.: 66 December 26, 1925. Retrieved January 17, 2023. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .

Bibliography

Connelly, Robert B. The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36, Volume 40, Issue 2. December Press, 1998.
Katchmer, George A. Eighty Silent Film Stars: Biographies and Filmographies of the Obscure to the Well Known. McFarland, 1991.
Munden, Kenneth White. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press, 1997.

External links

Smilin' at Trouble at IMDb

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[1] Katchmer p. 293

[EH-2] "New Pictures: Smilin' at Trouble". Exhibitors Herald. 24 (2). Chicago: Exhibitors Herald Co.: 66 December 26, 1925. Retrieved January 17, 2023. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .

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