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388:, because La Plante's character of Ann is younger than she appears and Eugene O'Brien's character of Major Anthony Seymour initially takes only a paternal interest in someone he believes a child. When he realizes her age his intentions turn affectionate, but become complicated when he learns that Ann is the daughter of an old sweetheart. They praise director William A. Seiter, writing that he "shows originality and imagination in his direction of a number of scenes." They also share that "Laura La Plante is quite effective as Ann", and that Eugene O'Brien "acts the role of Seymour with sincerity and restraint." They conclude that the film "is a photoplay which can be enjoyed because of the appealing love story and the pains taken by the producers to give an idea of the background, both aboard ship and in India." 287:) who is a cad, takes advantage of Ann's naiveté and places her in a compromising position. To save her reputation, the Major proposes to Ann and she accepts. When they arrive in Bombay, Gilchrist gets even by telling Ann that the Major had had an affair with her mother, causing Ann to break the engagement. Angry, the Major follows Gilchrist off ship and thrashes him. As she prepares to return alone to England, the Major forces Gilchrist to admit to Ann that the relationship between the Major and Ann's mother was platonic and never romantic. The young couple reunite and are later married at sea. 264: 31: 379:
writes that the subject of shipboard romances are "invariably appealing, especially when the heroine has youth and beauty and the hero is a British Major clad in a faultlessly cut uniform", offering that the film begins well and slackens at the end only because the heroine "is just a little bit too
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credulous, even for a girl who is much in love." They offer that viewers are apt to think of the
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during 14 days during a round trip voyage from San Francisco to Honolulu, Hawaii.
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Approximately one half of the scenes were shot on board the SS
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William A. Seiter
Lewis Milestone
James O. Spearing
Ann's an Idiot
Pamela Wynne
Carl Laemmle
Laura La Plante
Eugene O'Brien
Jean Hersholt
Alfred Allen
Richard Fryer
Merritt B. Gerstad
Universal Pictures
Silent
intertitles
silent
romantic comedy
Lewis Milestone
James O. Spearing
Ann's an Idiot
Pamela Wynne
William A. Seiter
Universal Pictures
Laura La Plante
Eugene O'Brien

Laura La Plante
Eugene O'Brien
Hedda Hopper

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