Tramp, Tramp, Tramp *** (1926, Harry Langdon, Joan Crawford, Edwards Davis) – Classic Movie Review 9012

Joan Crawford appears and Frank Capra helped to write director Harry Edwards’s 1926 silent comedy Tramp, Tramp, Tramp for star Harry Langdon, who plays the humble, lowly Harry Logan, who takes part in a $25,000 cross-country walking contest to win the hand of the woman he loves (Crawford, no less).

Crawford plays sweet Betty Burton, and naturally Harry Logan falls in love with her, but has to improve his prospects to marry her, so he enters the hiking contest to try to win the $25,000.

The little chap braves a hurricane and a jail sentence to win through.

Langdon’s style of comedy is to taste (but then all comedy is), and has faded somewhat, along with his reputation, but, for the fans, his first feature-length movie (after 22 shorts) is a hoot.

It is already Crawford’s tenth film in only her second year of film-making, all minor appearances. Being Langdon’s co-star here was a hitch up for her career.

Also in the cast are Alec B Francis, Edwards Davis, Carlton Griffin, Tom Murray and Brooks Benedict.

Tramp, Tramp, Tramp is directed by Harry Edwards, runs 65 minutes, is made by Harry Langdon Corporation, is released by First National, is written by Frank Capra, Tim Whelan, Hal Conklin, Gerald Duffy, Murray Roth and J Frank Holliday, is shot in black and white by Elgin Lessley and George Spear, and is produced by Harry Langdon.

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