Spuds is a 1927 American silent comedy film directed by Edward Ludwig and starring Larry Semon, Dorothy Dwan, and Edward Hearn.Munden p. 759Progressive Silent Film List: Suds at silentera.com Semon and Dwan were married. The film survives and it's preserved.
Synopsis In France during World War I, an American doughboy attempts to recover a car carrying a payroll of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars that was stolen by German spies.
Cast Larry Semon as Spuds Dorothy Dwan as Madelon Edward Hearn as Captain Arthur Kewpie Morgan as Sergeant Robert Graves as General Hazel Howell as Bertha Hugh Fay as Spy
Reception Spuds was not well received and Semon, who had largely financed the film on his own, lost all of his remaining money. Spuds was his last feature film, and he filed for bankruptcy in March 1928. He died of pneumonia and tuberculosis on October 8, 1928.
References
Bibliography 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
Contract between Larry Semon and Pathé Exchange to produce Spuds (Exhibit D in records of the appeal of a lawsuit involving Pathé Exchange and the film The Bride of the Colorado (1928), page 2116 / 706)