The Nervous Wreck

{{short description|1926 film}} {{about|the 1926 American silent comedy film|the 1977 UK single|Radio Stars}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox film | name =The Nervous Wreck | image =Poster for The Nervous Wreck (1926).jpg | caption = | director =Scott Sidney | producer = Al Christie <br> Charles Christie |based_on = ''The Nervous Wreck'' by Owen Davis | writer = F. McGrew Willis | narrator = | starring = Harrison Ford <br> Phyllis Haver <br> Chester Conklin | music = | cinematography =Alex Phillips | editing = | studio =Christie Film Company | distributor = Producers Distributing Corporation | released ={{Film date|1926|10|10}} | runtime =70 minutes | country = United States | language = Silent <br> English intertitles | budget = | gross = }} [[File:The Nervous Wreck ad in Exhibitor's Herald The Independent Film Trade Paper (weekly, September 18, 1926 to December 11, 1926) - Internet Archive - exhibitorsherald27unse (page 1468 crop).jpg|thumb|363x363px|The Nervous Wreck ad in ''Exhibitors Herald'', 1926]] '''''The Nervous Wreck''''' is a 1926 American silent comedy adventure film directed by Scott Sidney and starring Harrison Ford, Phyllis Haver and Chester Conklin.<ref>Connelly p.182</ref> It is based on the play ''The Nervous Wreck'' by Owen Davis, inspired by an earlier story ''The Wreck'' by E.J. Rath. The play later became a musical on which the 1930 film ''Whoopee!'' was based and also inspired the 1944 film ''Up in Arms''.

==Plot== Wrongly believing himself to be suffering from a fatal illness, a Pittsburgh man sets out for Arizona but stops at a ranch for a meal on the way. There he is tricked into eloping with the daughter of the house, engaged to a local sheriff. The couple are subsequently pursued by the sheriff and the girl's father, and during a series of adventures he discovers that his poor health was all in his mind.

==Cast== * Harrison Ford as Henry Williams * Phyllis Haver as Sally Morgan * Chester Conklin as Mort * Mack Swain as Jerome Underwood * Hobart Bosworth as Jud Morgan * Paul Nicholson as Bob Wells * Vera Steadman as Harriet Underwood * Charles K. Gerrard as Reggie De Vere * Clarence Burton as Andy McNab

==References== {{reflist}}

==Bibliography== * Connelly, Robert B. ''The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36, Volume 40, Issue 2''. December Press, 1998. * Munden, Kenneth White. ''The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1''. University of California Press, 1997.

==External links== {{commons category|The Nervous Wreck}} * {{IMDb title|0017201}}

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