A Sailor-Made Man
About A Sailor-Made Man
The Boy, heir to twenty million dollars, proposes to The Girl at a resort, and her steel-magnate father tells him to get a job first. He joins the Navy for three years and cannot get free when her yacht sails. On board he takes the blame for a box thrown by Rough-House O'Rafferty, and they become friends. On shore leave in Agar Shahar Khairpura, the Maharajah kidnaps The Girl, and the Boy gets her out of the palace. From his ship he flags Will you, and, with her father's approval, she flags back I will.
Cast & crew
More about A Sailor-Made Man
Fred Newmeyer directed, and Hal Roach produced and wrote it. Planned as a two-reeler, it ran long in preview at more than forty minutes, and Harold Lloyd kept all four reels. The title puns on the 1917 play A Tailor-Made Man, and the picture was made against a budget of just over $77,000.
Themes
Reviews
Photoplay called it "a riot of fun" with "a first-rate story" and called Mildred Davis "a pleasing foil."
Look
Walter Lundin shot it, including the palace rescue and the flag hoist between the Navy ship and the yacht.
Notes
- Mildred Davis plays The Girl. Noah Young is billed as The Rowdy Element; the plot names him Rough-House O'Rafferty. Dick Sutherland is the Maharajah of Khairpura-Bhandanna.
- The fictional port is called the City of a Thousand Rascals, in the country of Khairpura-Bhandanna.
Scenes
- The Boy steps up when O'Rafferty's thrown box hits an officer.
- He gets The Girl out of the Maharajah's palace alone.
- Signal flags from the ship ask Will you? The yacht answers I will.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (A Sailor-Made Man (1921).webm)
