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What Happened to Jones (1926 film)

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What Happened to Jones
Theatrical poster
Directed by	William A. Seiter
Written by	Melville W. Brown (adaptation, screenplay)
Based on	What Happened to Jones byGeorge Broadhurst^[1]
Produced by	Carl Laemmle
Starring	Reginald Denny Marian Nixon Otis Harlan
Cinematography	Arthur L. Todd
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date	February 8, 1926 (1926-02-08)
Running time	70 min.
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

What Happened to Jones (1926) by William A. Seiter

What Happened to Jones is a 1926 American silent comedy film directed by William A. Seiter and starring Reginald Denny. It was produced and distributed by Universal Pictures. The film is based on the 1897 Broadway play What Happened to JonesbyGeorge Broadhurst.^[2]^[3]

Plot

As described in a review in a film magazine,^[4] Tom Jones (Denny), who is to be married the next day to Lucille Bigbee (Nixon), goes home but is inveigled into a poker game. The place is raided and Tom and a fat elderly friend, Ebenezer Goodly (Harlan), escaping down a fire escape land in a ladies' Turkish bath establishment, where they naturally create a hullabaloo and finally make a getaway in women's clothes, reaching Goodly's home in a milk wagon the next morning. When Tom dons the clothes of Goodly's brother, a bishop, who is expected that morning, he is seen by Mrs. Goodly (Fitzroy) and has to pose as the bishop. Complications follow thick and fast including the jealousy of a chap because Tom kisses his sweetheart, and the forcing of Tom as the bishop to officiate at the wedding of his fiancé to another chap. It all turns out right, for she recognizes Tom, says "I Don't" instead of "I Do." Tom escapes from the waiting cops by grabbing her and the real bishop (Elliott) and getting married in a speeding automobile.