{{Short description|1924 film by Del Andrews}} {{Use mdy dates|date=October 2025}} {{Infobox film | name = The Galloping Fish | image = Galloping Fish (1924).jpg | caption = Lobby card | director = Del Andrews | producer = | writer = Will Lambert (adaptation) | screenplay = | based_on = {{basedon|''Friend Wife''|Frank R. Adams}} | starring = Louise Fazenda<br>Syd Chaplin<br>Ford Sterling<br>Chester Conklin<br>Lucille Ricksen<br>John Steppling | music = | cinematography = Max Dupont<br>Conrad Wells | editing = | studio = Thomas H. Ince Corporation | distributor = First National Pictures | released = {{film date|1924|3|10}} | runtime = 46 minutes | country = United States | language = Silent (English intertitles) | budget = | gross = }} '''''The Galloping Fish''''' is a 1924 American silent comedy film directed by Del Andrews and starring Louise Fazenda, Syd Chaplin, Ford Sterling, Chester Conklin, Lucille Ricksen, and John Steppling. It is based on the 1917 novel ''Friend Wife'' by Frank R. Adams.<ref>''Munsey's Magazine, Volume 59'', p. 7, c.1917 The Frank A. Munsey Company</ref> The film was released by First National Pictures on March 10, 1924.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.allmovie.com/movie/galloping-fish-v92578|title=The Galloping Fish|work=AllMovie|accessdate=January 13, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/493812/galloping-fish|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160413013709/http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/493812/Galloping-Fish/|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 13, 2016|title=The Galloping Fish|work=Turner Classic Movies|access-date=January 13, 2018}}</ref>
The film was later re-released by Selected Pictures in 1930 with talking sequences.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/9271|title=The Galloping Fish|work=afi.com|accessdate=January 13, 2018}}</ref>
==Plot== As described in a film magazine review,<ref name="ETR">{{cite journal |last=Pardy |first=George T. |title=Box Office Reviews: ''The Galloping Fish'' |journal=Exhibitors Trade Review |volume= |issue= |pages=26 |publisher=Exhibitors Review Publishing Corporation |date=5 April 1924 |location=New York |url=https://archive.org/details/exhibi00newy/page/n377/mode/1up |accessdate=2 November 2022}} {{Source-attribution}}</ref> Freddie, a trained seal, is smuggled out of a theatre using an ambulance by George Fitzgerald, the fiancé of his owner, Undine, a vaudeville performer, to escape seizure for debt. Freddy Wetherill, George's friend, assists. The latter is notified that his rich uncle is dying and wants Wetherill's wife Hyla to nurse him. But the husband and wife have quarreled, so Undine substitutes for the wife and is accompanied by George, as Wetherill's valet. A flood engulfs the uncle's house. The occupants seek the roof, where escaping animals from a circus also find refuge. They are all finally rescued by the seal, who conveys them ashore with the aid of a telegraph pole.
==Cast== {{Cast listing| *Louise Fazenda as Undine *Syd Chaplin as Freddy Wetherill *Ford Sterling as George Fitzgerald *Chester Conklin as Jonah *Lucille Ricksen as Hyla Wetherill *John Steppling as Cato Dodd *Freddie the Seal as The Trained Seal *Willie Aligator as The Aligtaor (uncredited) *Lloyd Ingraham as Process Server (uncredited) *Eugene Pallette as Anti-Volstead Esquire (uncredited) *Truly Shattuck as Mrs. Dodd (uncredited) }}
==Preservation== Prints of the film survive at the Filmoteka Narodowa in Warsaw, Poland and Cineteca Italiana in Milan, Italy.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://lcweb2.loc.gov:8081/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.5520/default.html |title=American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: ''The Galloping Fish'' |publisher=Library of Congress |access-date=October 7, 2025 |archive-date=January 14, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180114183737/http://lcweb2.loc.gov:8081/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.5520/default.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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==External links== {{Commons category|Galloping Fish}} *{{IMDb title|id=0014934|title=The Galloping Fish}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Galloping Fish, The}} Category:1924 films Category:1924 comedy films Category:1924 American films Category:1924 English-language films Category:American black-and-white films Category:American silent feature films Category:English-language comedy films Category:Films based on American novels Category:Films directed by Del Andrews Category:First National Pictures films Category:American silent comedy films Category:Surviving American silent films
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