The Sea Squawk
About The Sea Squawk
Scottish immigrant Sandy McNickel (Harry Langdon) boards the liner S.S. Cognac and is pulled into a jewel theft. Thieves Blackie Dawson and Pearl Blackstone have a large ruby. With a detective searching the cabins, Blackie makes Sandy swallow the stone and threatens to shoot him if he talks. Sandy later dresses as a woman to get away. The disguise draws a crowd, and when it fails he has to climb for his life.
Cast & crew
More about The Sea Squawk
Harry Edwards directed the short for Mack Sennett. William Hornbeck edited it. Eugenia Gilbert plays fellow immigrant Pola Gondola, Christian J. Frank plays Blackie Dawson, and Charlotte Mineau plays Pearl Blackstone.
Themes
Background
A January 1925 Mack Sennett comedy, still a silent short in the middle of Langdon's run at the studio.
Making
Sennett's unit built the gag around a swallowed gem and a female disguise on a ship set called the S.S. Cognac.
Music
Silent.
Preservation
A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- Leo Sulky plays the detective, and Bud Ross plays the ship's purser.
- The plot summary written for the short calls the detective's helper Flora Danube, 'a blue-eyed Bulgarian daisy.'
- Released 4 January 1925, it is one of Langdon's Sennett two-reelers from the year before His Marriage Wow.
Scenes
- Blackie forces Sandy to swallow the ruby while the detective searches cabins.
- Sandy's woman's disguise fails and he climbs to get away.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons
