Colonel Dodge, a gay old widower, goes to Florida with his daughter, Mary, when Miss Arbutus Quilty, one of his former flames, threatens him with a breach-of-promise suit. He hires Miss Pink, a lady detective, to retrieve a packet of incriminating letters Miss Quilty plans to use as evidence, but Miss Quilty follows him to Florida.


Listen Lester: A Whirlwind of Wit and Whimsy from the Roaring Twenties Stepping back into the cinematic landscape of 1924, one encounters a fascinating tapestry of storytelling, where the absence of spoken dialogue amplified visual expressiveness and the potency of physical comedy. Among the numerous...


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" Listen Lester: A Whirlwind of Wit and Whimsy from the Roaring Twenties Stepping back into the cinematic landscape of 1924, one encounters a fascinating tapestry of storytelling, where the absence of spoken dialogue amplified visual expressiveness and the potency of physical comedy. Among the numerous offerings of that vibrant era, Listen Lester emerges as a delightful, if perhaps lesser-remembered, example of a burgeoning genre: the romantic farce. This film, a product of the ..."

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William A. Seiter, Lewis Milestone, Harry Linsley Cort, G.E. Stoddard, Harold Orlog
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