The Nutcracker (1926 film)

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The Nutcracker
The Nutcracker (1926) - 1.jpg
Still with Horton and Busch
Directed by Lloyd Ingraham
Written byMadge Myton
Based on The Nut Cracker
by Frederic S. Isham
Starring Edward Everett Horton
Mae Busch
Harry Myers
Cinematography Jack MacKenzie
Production
company
Samuel S. Hutchinson Productions
Distributed by Associated Exhibitors
Ideal Films (UK)
Release date
  • March 28, 1926 (1926-03-28)
Running time
60 minutes
CountryUnited States
Language Silent (English intertitles)
The Nut-Cracker ad in Motion Picture News, 1926 The Nut-Cracker ad in Motion Picture News (March 6, 1926 to April 24, 1926) (page 11 crop).jpg
The Nut-Cracker ad in Motion Picture News , 1926

The Nutcracker (also written as The Nut-Cracker) is a 1926 American silent comedy film directed by Lloyd Ingraham and starring Edward Everett Horton, Mae Busch, and Harry Myers. [1] [2] It was based on the 1920 novel The Nut Cracker by Frederic S. Isham. [3]

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Plot

As described in a film magazine review, [4] Horatio Slipaway is henpecked at home by his wife Martha while in her gingham apron and abused at his office. He flees from home to escape his domineering wife and is injured by a streetcar. Awakening in a hospital, he is given $500 to settle the accident case. He feigns amnesia and, pretending he has lost all of his memory, gives his name as Pete Peters of Peru. He takes a flyer in the stock market when he saunters into a broker's office and cleans up by buying the lowest-quoted stock on the board and wins a fortune. Horatio takes an apartment, furnished a la Peru. He holds a reception which is attended by his wife whom he falls in love with again but keeps up his new role. Eventually his identity is discovered by his wife. Determined to make her husband "come out of it," she has him kidnapped and arranges for three surgeons to be waiting for him at his old home. Threatened with an operation to restore memory, he admits that he is Horatio. A happy reunion ensues.

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Preservation

With no prints of The Nutcracker located in any film archives, [5] it is a lost film.

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References

  1. Munden p. 556
  2. Connelly p. 191
  3. Progressive Silent Film List: The Nutcracker at silentera.com
  4. Elliott, Frank (17 April 1926), "Pre-Release Review of Features: The Nutcracker", Motion Picture News, 33 (16), New York City, New York: Motion Picture News, Inc.: 1836, retrieved 20 April 2023PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
  5. Library of Congress / FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: The Nut-Cracker

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