Too Much Johnson (1919)

Directed by

Donald Crisp

Genre

silent film

Country

United States

Runtime

50 min

Rated

NR

Rating

9.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man gets into a series of comic misunderstandings involving a wife, a lover, and a suspicious husband. The story is based on a stage play from the 1890s.

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What happens

Too Much Johnson is a lost 1919 American silent comedy film produced by Famous Players–Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It was directed by Donald Crisp during his phase as an important film director. This film stars in the leads Bryant Washburn and Lois Wilson. This film is based on William Gillette's 1894 play Too Much Johnson and is the second film attempt at the play, the first having been a short in 1900. Famously, Orson Welles made a short and unfinished film adaptation of the play in 1938, and he may have not known of this feature silent from 1919. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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