Percy is a lost 1925 American silent comedy film directed by Roy William Neill and starring Charles Ray, Louise Dresser and Victor McLaglen.Goble p. 906 The film is based upon the novel The Desert Fiddler by William Henry Hamby.Progressive Silent Film List: Percy at silentera.com
Plot As described in a film magazine review, Percy Rogeen, a mother’s boy, becomes his dad’s campaign manager and is taught to drink and smoke. In a fight he is thrown into a box car and eventually lands in the desert. He is saved from a gang by Holy Joe. Together they go to a gambling house and save the girl’s property from a gang plotting to get hold of it through holding back the water.
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Preservation With no prints of Percy located in any film archives,Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: Percy it is a lost film.
References
Bibliography Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
External links
Lantern slide and still at silenthollywood.com