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Why Girls Love Sailors
(1927) United States of America
B&W : Two reels
Directed by Fred Guiol

Cast: Stan Laurel [Willie Brisling], Oliver Hardy [the first mate], Malcolm Waite [the ship captain], Viola Richard [Willie’s girl], Anita Garvin [the captain’s wife], Edgar Dearing [the amorous sailor], Bobby Dunn [the bemused sailor], Jerry Mandy [a sailor], Sailor Sharkey [a sailor]

Hal Roach Studios, Incorporated, production; distributed by Pathé Exchange, Incorporated [Pathécomedy]. / From a screen story by Hal Roach. Intertitles written by H.M. Walker. Presented by Hal Roach. / © 18 May 1927 by Pathé Exchange, Incorporated [LU23978]. Released 17 July 1927. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The production was shot in February 1927. Cast appearances by Charles R. Althoff, Sojin Kamiyama, Eric Mayne and Anna May Wong were deleted before the film’s release. / Silent film.

Comedy.

Survival status: Print exists in the Cinémathèque française film archive [16mm reduction positive].

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 3 September 2023.

References: Skretvedt-Magic pp. 78, 80, 81-82, 435 : Website-IMDb.

Home video: Blu-ray Disc, DVD.