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Genre
  
Drama

Duration
  

Director
  
George Melford

Story by
  
Tom Gallon

Country
  
United States

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Language
  
Silent (English intertitles)

Release date
  
September 1, 1918

Based on
  
Novel The Cruise of the Make-Believes by Tom Gallon

Writer
  
Tom Gallon, Edith M. Kennedy

Produced by
  
Adolph Zukor, Jesse L. Lasky

Cast
  
Lila Lee
(Bessie Meggison),
Harrison Ford
(Gilbert Byfield),
Raymond Hackett
(Daniel Meggison),
Park Jones
(Jordan Tant),
Nina Byron
(Enid Crane)

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The Cruise of the Make-Believes is a lost 1918 American silent dramatic feature film starring Lila Lee in her first motion picture. It was directed by George Melford and is based on a 1907 novel by Tom Gallon. Famous Players-Lasky produced and Paramount Pictures released.

Contents

The film was released at the height of the 1918 flu pandemic.

Plot

As described in a film magazine, Bessie Meggison (Lee) lives in the slums with her drunken father Daniel Meggison (Hacket) and presides over a boarding house. Gilbert Byfield, a wealthy youth who is writing a book, lives nearby in a cheap room. He becomes acquainted with Bessie and together they sail on many imaginary voyages on an improvised yacht in her back yard. Gilbert gives her father permission to take Bessie to his estate in the country for a month's vacation. Daniel Meggison invites his slum friends and drinks to his heart's content while Bessie entertains dozens of urchins. Gilbert returns and learns that Meggison has told Bessie that the estate belongs to him. Gilbert is also confronted by his fiance, and Bessie realizes that all of her family wealth is a sham. Heartbroken, she returns to her slum home. Gilbert finds her on the make believe ship and promises her that her dream of riches will come true.

Cast

  • Lila Lee as Bessie Meggison
  • Harrison Ford as Gilbert Byfield
  • Raymond Hackett as Daniel Meggison
  • William Brunton as Aubrey Meggison
  • J. Parks Jones as Jordan Tant (credited as Park Jones)
  • Spottiswoode Aitken as Simon Quarle
  • Bud Duncan as Uncle Ed
  • Eunice Murdock Moore as Aunt Julia (credited as Eunice Moore)
  • Mayme Kelso as Mrs. Ewart Crane (credited as Maym Kelso)
  • Nina Byron as Enid Crane
  • William McLaughlin as Saloon Proprietor
  • Jane Wolfe as Byfield's Landlady (credited as Jane Wolff)
  • John McKinnon as Butler of Dream Valley

    • References

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