
Synopsis
To end his son's romantic entanglements, a wealthy father sends him to the Basque region of France. The plan immediately fails when a local woman sees the visitor as a way to escape an unwanted suitor.
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- Original language
- No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
- This copy runs
- 63:03
- Subtitles
- No subtitle track in this language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.
Wikimedia Commons · Creator:Paul Sloane · Public domain
Cast
Historical context
Harpo Marx appears without his brothers in this early surviving screen role. His character's lines appear in intertitles, before silence became a defining feature of his later sound-film persona.
Sources and availability
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Work catalogued as public domain in the United States.
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Availability checked on September 16, 2026.
Photograph credit
Photographs cropped, resized and optimized as WebP, displayed in monochrome.
- Richard Dix — Unknown author · Public domain
- Frances Howard — Arne F. Køpke; National Archives of Norway (Riksarkivet) · CC BY-SA 4.0
- William Powell — George Hurrell for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer · Public domain
- Frank Currier — Unknown author Unknown author; Internet Archive · Public domain
- Harpo Marx — Vandamm Studio; http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?1158251 · Public domain
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