Young playboy Robert Pitt makes a bet with friends at a restaurant that he will obtain within 24 hours a photograph of a girl across the room, whom he has never met, autographed fondly to him. His unsuccessful attempts to steal the photograph from her and win the bet make up the rest of the plot.


Stepping into the Wodehousian Whirlwind of A Gentleman of Leisure (1923) Ah, the early 1920s! A period brimming with societal shifts, burgeoning cinematic artistry, and, if we’re talking about the world of P.G. Wodehouse, a delightful propensity for gentlemen of leisure to entangle themselves in the most gloriously ...

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Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.

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" Stepping into the Wodehousian Whirlwind of A Gentleman of Leisure (1923) Ah, the early 1920s! A period brimming with societal shifts, burgeoning cinematic artistry, and, if we’re talking about the world of P.G. Wodehouse, a delightful propensity for gentlemen of leisure to entangle themselves in the most gloriously absurd predicaments. And so, we find ourselves dissecting the charming, often farcical silent film, A Gentleman of Leisure, released in 1923. Directed with a nimble hand and penned..."
Adele Farrington
P.G. Wodehouse, John Stapleton, Anthony Coldeway, Jack Cunningham
United States


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