This Is the Life

A breezy silent comedy where mistaken identity and revolution are played for laughs, with a charmingly naive hero.

Directed by

Raoul Walsh

Genres

Comedy, Drama

Starring

George Walsh, Wanda Hawley, James A. Marcus

Tagline

He Thinks It's All Part of the Show Until They Start to Shoot Him! AND THEN-THINGS FLY!

Overview

At his father’s insistence Billy Drake heads to the family’s South American ammunition company as an emissary. Before leaving, however, the movie-struck Billy spots a beautiful woman standing in front of a theater and imagines that she is a film star. To his delight, he finds the woman on board his ship, as well as political agitator Count Von Nuttenburg who has stolen a movie camera, thinking that it is a new brand of machine gun. Von Nuttenburg shows the camera to Billy. Thinking the Count is a director, and the ship a set for a movie melodrama when the boat lands at a port torn by revolution, Billy insists that the guns and soldiers are part of the show. Not until he and the girl are seized by the rebels and threatened with death, does he admit his error. By a clever ruse, he escapes from his captors and with the help of Federal troops defeats the Count and wins the heart of his pretty shipmate.

How it feels

Light, whimsical, romantic and satirical. Brisk and fine in the background.

About

Identity, love, deception, war

Content

Mild violence. No gore, sexual content or swearing.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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