Forty Winks

Summary The Butterworth family attorney Gaspar Le Sage, and a suitor for the hand of Eleanor Butterworth, persuades a beautiful Eurasian adventuress, Annabelle Wu, to help him steal the official plans for the coastal defense of California from Eleanor's brother, Lieutenant Butterworth. Annabelle gets the susceptible lieutenant drunk at a roadhouse, steals his keys, and gets the plans. Blame for the theft is placed on British secret service agent Lord Chumley, engaged to Eleanor, who immediately sets out to clear his own name and save the family honor. He prevents young Butterworth from killing himself, recovers the documents, and saves Eleanor, who has been abducted, in desperation, by Le Sage. View more details

Forty Winks

Directed : Frank Urson Paul Iribe

Written : Bertram Millhauser David Belasco Henry C. DeMille

Stars : William Boyd Theodore Roberts Raymond Griffith Cyril Chadwick

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Genres : Comedy Drama

Release date : Feb 1, 1925

Countries of origin : United States

Language : English None

Production companies : Paramount Pictures

Summary The Butterworth family attorney Gaspar Le Sage, and a suitor for the hand of Eleanor Butterworth, persuades a beautiful Eurasian adventuress, Annabelle Wu, to help him steal the official plans for the coastal defense of California from Eleanor's brother, Lieutenant Butterworth. Annabelle gets the susceptible lieutenant drunk at a roadhouse, steals his keys, and gets the plans. Blame for the theft is placed on British secret service agent Lord Chumley, engaged to Eleanor, who immediately sets out to clear his own name and save the family honor. He prevents young Butterworth from killing himself, recovers the documents, and saves Eleanor, who has been abducted, in desperation, by Le Sage. View more details

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Genres : Comedy Drama

Release date : Feb 1, 1925

Countries of origin : United States

Language : English None

Production companies : Paramount Pictures

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