Excuse My Dust
About Excuse My Dust
Race driver Tommy Gibbs quits to marry Dolly, who does not want him racing. She later takes their baby to San Francisco and leaves him. When he hears the child is seriously ill, he has no way to get there until his father-in-law produces a new car entered in a cross-country race that ends in San Francisco.
Cast & crew
More about Excuse My Dust
Sam Wood directed Wallace Reid for Famous Players–Lasky. Adolph Zukor and Jesse L. Lasky produced, and Paramount distributed it. Byron Morgan's Saturday Evening Post story "The Bear Trap" is the source. Alfred Gilks photographed it. Wallace Reid Jr. makes his first screen appearance. A print is at the Library of Congress. Released 21 May 1920.
Themes
Look
Alfred Gilks photographed it.
Preservation
A print is held at the Library of Congress.
Notes
- Ann Little and Theodore Roberts are in the cast with Reid.
- The film survives.
Scenes
- The father-in-law's new race car is bound for San Francisco, where the child is ill.
Influenced by
- The Bear Trap (Byron Morgan)
