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The Cock-Eyed World
Also known as {The Cockeyed World}
(1929) United States of America
B&W : 12 reels / 10,611 feet / 120 minutes
Directed by Raoul Walsh
Cast: Victor McLaglen [Top Sergeant Flagg], Edmund Lowe [Sergeant Harry Quirt], Lily Damita [Mariana Elenita], Leila Karnelly (Lelia Karnelly) [Olga], El Brendel [‘Yump’ Olson], Bob Burns [Connors], Jeanette Dagna [Katinka], Joe Brown [Brownie], Stuart Erwin [Buckley], Ivan Linow [Sanovich], Jean Barry (Jean Laverty) [Fanny], Soledad Jiménez [the innkeeper], Albert Dresden (Curley Dresden) [O’Sullivan], Joe Rochay [Jacobs], Con Conrad [the conductor], Warren Hymer [Marine Corporal Scout], Harry Tyler [the marine from San Francisco], Charles Sullivan [a Marine brawler], Willie ‘Sugar’ Keeler (Willie Keeler) [a brawler], Joseph Herrick [a brawler], Leo Houck [a brawler], Will Stanton, Lupita Tovar, Billy K. Wells, Jose Arias [the leader of the Spanish String Band Serenaders], Kamerko Balalaika Orchestra
Fox Film Corporation production; distributed by Fox Film Corporation. / Scenario by Raoul Walsh, with dialogue by William K. Wells (Billy K. Wells), [?] from a story adaptation by Tom Barry and Wilson Mizner? of the play Tropical Twins by Laurence Stallings and Maxwell Anderson. Songs “Over There” by George M. Cohan (music and lyrics); “Rose of No Man’s Land,” by Joseph A. Brennan (music) and James Caddigan (lyrics); “K-K-K-Katy” by Geoffrey O’Hara (music and lyrics); “(What Has Become of) Hinky Dinky Parlay Voo” by Al Dubin, Irving Mills, Jimmy McHugh and Irwin Dash (music and lyrics); “So Long” and “So Dear to Me” by Sidney Mitchell, Archie Gottler and Con Conrad (music and lyrics); “You’re the Cream in My Coffee” by Ray Henderson (music), Lew Brown and Buddy G. DeSylva (lyrics); “Glorianna” by Lew Clare and Sidney Pollack (music and lyrics). Wardrobe by Sam Benson. Technical advisors, Captain Ross Adams, Captain Kearney and Colonel Rhea. Assistant director, Archibald Buchanan. Cinematography by Arthur Edeson. Sound recording by Edmund H. Hansen. Film editor, Jack Dennis. Intertitles written by Wilbur Morse Jr. Music “Semper Fidelis” by John Philip Sousa. Presented by William Fox. / © 12 August 1929 by Fox Film Corporation [LP586]. Premiered 3 August 1929 in New York, New York. Released 20 October 1929. / Movietone 35mm spherical 1.20:1 format (sound version) and Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format (silent version). Western Electric Movietone sound-on-film synchronized sound system. / McLaglen and Lowe reprised their roles from What Price Glory (1926). The film was also released in the USA in a silent version, (at 8217 feet), by Fox Film Corporation on 5 October 1929. / Full-sound film.
Comedy-Drama.
Survival status: Print exists [16mm reduction positive].
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Synchronized sound film
Listing updated: 31 January 2025.
References: Baer-Film p. 49; Limbacher-Feature p. 46; Maltin-Disney p. 5; Parish-Combat p. 444; Webb-Hollywood pp. 20, 22 : Website-AFI; Website-IMDb.
Home video: DVD.
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