My Friend from India (1927)

Stars: Franklin Pangborn, Elinor Fair, Ben Hendricks Jr, Ethel Wales
Director: E. Mason Hopper
Runtime: 74 Minutes + 7 minute short
Language: English subtitles - Theatre organ score
Color:  Black and White
Format:  DVD-R
Extras: “Dinky Doodle”
Rating: NR
Price: $16.95

My Friend from India
(1927)

Directed by E. Mason Hopper

CAST
Franklin Pangborn  ... Tommy Valentine
Elinor Fair  ... Barbara
Ben Hendricks Jr.  ... Charlie
Ethel Wales  ... Bedelia Smith
Jeanette Loff  ... Ruth Brooks
Tom Ricketts  ... Judge Elmer Elderberry Egbert Belmore
Louis Natheaux  ... T. Austin Webb
Tom Dugan  ... Bogus Hindu Swami
George Ovey  ... Valet to Hindu Prince
Edgar Norton  ... Jennings the Butler

Dandy Tommy Valentine meets and falls for Barbara, the niece of Socialite Bedelia Smith, but fails to learn her name, so he is forced to consult a "Swami mystic" to learn her identity. Meanwhile Bedelia's lay-about nephew Charlie, who blames his late nights on a fictitious Hindu Prince he is entertaining finds himself pressed to bring his royal friend to guarantee the success of his mother's up coming soiree.

74  Minutes

Theatre organ score by David Knudtson

A delightful blend of live-action and animation in the included Dinky Doodle short

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