The Nervous Wreck

1926 film

The Nervous Wreck ad in Exhibitors Herald, 1926

The Nervous Wreck is a 1926 American silent comedy adventure film directed by Scott Sidney and starring Harrison Ford, Phyllis Haver and Chester Conklin.^[1] It is based on the play The Nervous Wreck by Owen Davis, inspired by an earlier story The Wreck by E.J. Rath. The play later became a musical on which the 1930 film Whoopee! was based and also inspired the 1944 film Up in Arms.

Plot

Wrongly believing himself to be suffering from a fatal illness, a Pittsburgh man sets out for Arizona but stops at a ranch for a meal on the way. There he is tricked into eloping with the daughter of the house, engaged to a local sheriff. The couple are subsequently pursued by the sheriff and the girl's father, and during a series of adventures he discovers that his poor health was all in his mind.

Cast

• Harrison Ford as Henry Williams
• Phyllis Haver as Sally Morgan
• Chester Conklin as Mort
• Mack Swain as Jerome Underwood
• Hobart Bosworth as Jud Morgan
• Paul Nicholson as Bob Wells
• Vera Steadman as Harriet Underwood
• Charles K. Gerrard as Reggie De Vere
• Clarence Burton as Andy McNab

References

1. Connelly p.182

Bibliography

• Connelly, Robert B. The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36, Volume 40, Issue 2. December Press, 1998.
• Munden, Kenneth White. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press, 1997.

External links

• The Nervous Wreck at IMDb