Summary American newspaper reporter Jim Crocker's madcap escapades in London earn him notoriety and the nickname "Piccadilly Jim." When he overhears his American cousin-by-marriage, Ann Chester, giving her candid opinion of him, he decides to return to America to try to reform. He meets Ann on the boat, using another name. Unable to find work in New York, he goes to his step-aunt Mrs. Peter Pett's home to be near Ann, then helps her kidnap pampered cousin Ogden Pett, whose overindulgence has created disruption in the household. The plans fail, despite Ogden's consent to the kidnapping in return for half the ransom money, but Jim succeeds in winning Ann's affections. View more details
Directed : Wesley Ruggles
Written : P.G. Wodehouse
Stars : Owen Moore William T. Hayes Zena Keefe George Bunny
Genres : Comedy Crime
Release date : Oct 31, 1919
Countries of origin : United States
Language : None
Filming locations : New York City, New York, USA
Production companies : Selznick Pictures Corporation
Summary American newspaper reporter Jim Crocker's madcap escapades in London earn him notoriety and the nickname "Piccadilly Jim." When he overhears his American cousin-by-marriage, Ann Chester, giving her candid opinion of him, he decides to return to America to try to reform. He meets Ann on the boat, using another name. Unable to find work in New York, he goes to his step-aunt Mrs. Peter Pett's home to be near Ann, then helps her kidnap pampered cousin Ogden Pett, whose overindulgence has created disruption in the household. The plans fail, despite Ogden's consent to the kidnapping in return for half the ransom money, but Jim succeeds in winning Ann's affections. View more details
Genres : Comedy Crime
Release date : Oct 31, 1919
Countries of origin : United States
Language : None
Filming locations : New York City, New York, USA
Production companies : Selznick Pictures Corporation
