Our Leading Citizen

Story of a war hero who preferred fishing to politics.

Story of a war hero who preferred fishing to politics.

Eddie Lyons tears his pants in the back and meets an old army buddy.

A William Beaudine film directed by , released in 1922.

Billy Bevan trying to escape the cops! Roughly only half of the original short’s twenty-two minutes still exists.

Ek is a disembodied spirit, required to wait his turn in the boring cosmos until he is allowed to inhabit an earthly body. Impatient, he sneaks off to earth to find a body and, after several failed attempts, finds Professor…

A Harold Beaudine film directed by , released in 1922.

A Tom Buckingham film directed by , released in 1922.

A Eddie Lyons film directed by , released in 1922.
A Tom Buckingham film directed by , released in 1922.

Judge Granger, a candidate for mayor, attempts to persuade Mary Allen Sayre to marry him. She meets his double, a young traveling salesman named Jimmy Gallop, mistaking him for the judge. Granger’s opponents bribe Jimmy to impersonate the judge in…