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Excess Baggage (1928)

Excess Baggage poster
Directed by
James Cruze
Genre
silent film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 20m
Rating
8.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young woman and a man get stuck traveling together. They have comic misadventures along the way.

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What happens

Excess Baggage is a lost 1928 American synchronized sound comedy film directed by James Cruze and distributed by MGM. While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using both the sound-on-disc and sound-on-film process. The film was based on the 1927 play of the same name by John McGowan. The film starred William Haines, Josephine Dunn and Kathleen Clifford. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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