Putting It Over

5 reelsCountryUnited StatesLanguageSilent (English intertitles)

Putting It Over is a lost^[1] 1919 American silent comedy film directed by Donald Crisp and starring Bryant Washburn. The film was produced by Famous Players–Lasky with distribution being handled by Paramount Pictures.^[2]

Plot

As described in a film magazine,^[3] Buddy (Washburn) works in a drug store mixing soda waters for $12 a week. By calling his landlady "Dearie" and making love to her daughter, he is allowed certain liberties around his boarding house. He falls in love with a stenographer and in a moment of confidence proposes to her, and she accepts. He tells her that he makes $50 a week. A cut in the workforce at the drug store finds him without a job. He is also ejected from his room, and spends the night in the park. During the long hours of the night he evolves a scheme which the drug store puts into practice, and he soon has a position at his old firm paying $50 a week. On the day he accepts the job offer the wedding bells ring out.

Cast

• Bryant Washburn as Robert "Buddy" Marsh
• Shirley Mason as Mary Stacey
• Adele Farrington as Mrs. Peeler
• Winifred Greenwood as Miss June Peeler
• Casson Ferguson as Perkins
• Clarence Geldart as Mr. Hard (credited as C.H. Geldert)
• Edward Alexander as Percival
• Robert Dunbar as Chilton
• Guy Oliver as Policeman
• Edna Mae Cooper

References

External links

• Putting It Over at IMDb
• listing at AllMovie
• Glass slide