deceiving eyes
by
Douglas Messerli
Frank
Capra, Arthur Ripley and Blake Wagner (screenplay), Edgar Kennedy and Reggie
Morris (directors) The Reel Virginian / 1924 [Status unknown]
IMDb does list the cast, the character
names and some of their roles. Ben Turpin plays The Virginian, while Alice Day
is a schoolteacher. Christian J. Frank plays Scampas, Sam Allen plays Uncle
Louis Lorimer, and Frederick Ko Vert (Frederick Kovert) is Mlle. Sans Souci
who, like his 1925 directed by Stan Laurel, is a detective in drag.
Other than these listings, the only
information that we seem to have on this film available on the internet is the
clipping I found among the photos of Frederick Kovert, evidently from a
newspaper advertisement, “His Eyes Have Deceived Him,” a picture of Kovert in
the role with Ben Turpin that reiterates the underlying “joke” of the film,
“Ben Turpin evidently likes his new leading lady a whole lot. But his eyes have
deceived him. The lady in question is Frederick Ko Vert, the female
impersonator who appears with him in his new Mack Sennett comedy, The Reel
Virginian.”
Los
Angeles, July 4, 2022
Reprinted
from World Cinema Review (July 2022).
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