The Swell Head
The Swell Head is a 1928 silent comedy short
Bryan Foy
F. Hugh Herbert
Casts & Crew
Also Directed by Bryan Foy
Hazel Green & Company play a few songs.
The Foy Family performs a vaudeville act.
James Mack, a reporter for the International News Bureau, is assigned by his editor to do a story on the phenomenon of nudist colonies.
A husband (John Miljan) and wife (Claire Whitney) arguing about which sex gossips more. Just then a friend (Robert Emmett Keane) they both know comes to visit but he isn't aware that they are now married. Soon this friend is gossiping to each of them about the other and sure enough problems start.
Tom Dugan trying to go on a date behind his wife's back gets a surprise.
Frank Whitman demonstrates that he can replace a standard violin bow with a variety of objects.
A poor clerk pretends that he has lots of money.
Buddy Harris and Frank Radcliffe crack some jokes, play craps, and sing a song.
Eddie is conned into fronting a speakeasy for a local gangster who intends to frame him for the murder of a cop.
A bunch of niwits make a mishmash of a moving job.