Astray from the Steerage
While an immigrant couple are detained by authorities to see if they're fit, a smuggler tries to sneak a bottle into their luggage, but he accidentally gets trapped inside, and gets sent to the house where the new Americans will w...
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""Ashtray from the Steerage" is an oddly named comedy starring Billy Bevan and Louise Fazenda. Sadly, while the film has recently been restored and looks pretty good, for a comedy it doesn't have a ton of laughs in this Mack Sennett production. Billy and Louise play immigrants who have come to the United States to start a new life and act as caretakers for a rich woman's child. On the boat is a smuggler who is trying to sneak a single bottle of Scotch into the US, as it is during the Prohibition era and alcohol is forbidden. The problem with this one is it just isn't ..."
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Last film of director Frank Powell, best known for his blockbuster A Fool There Was (1915) starring Theda Bara. A dozen years earlier, Powell and producer Mack Sennett were both unknown actors working for D.W. Griffith at Biograph.
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While an immigrant couple are detained by authorities to see if they're fit, a smuggler tries to sneak a bottle into their luggage, but he accidentally gets trapped inside, and gets sent to the house where the new Americans will w...