The Galloping Fish (1924)
45m
Running Time
March 10, 1924
Release Date

The Galloping Fish (1924)
45m
Running Time
March 10, 1924
Release Date
Plot.
Freddy Wetherill and his bride, Hyla, quarrel at her mother's beach cottage, and Hyla sends her new husband home alone. Seeking distraction from his troubles, Freddy enters a vaudeville theater where Undine, "the diving Venus," and her trained seal, Bubbles, are performing. Outside the theater, Freddy meets Undine's fiancé, George Fitzgerald, and becomes involved in George's effort to hide Undine's seal from a bill collector armed with an order of attachment because of an unpaid hotel bill. Complications arise when Freddy Wetherill's dying rich uncle, Cato Dodd, notifies him that he wants Hyla to nurse him. To insure he stays in his uncle's will, Freddy substitutes Undine for Hyla and takes George along to act as his "valet." Naturally, Bubbles comes along, too. This movie is presumed to be lost.
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Cast & Crew.

Lucille Ricksen
Hyla Wetherill

Louise Fazenda
Undine

Ford Sterling
George Fitzgerald

Chester Conklin
Jonah

John Steppling
Cato Dodd

Truly Shattuck
Mrs. Dodd

Freddie the Seal
The Trained Seal

Willie Alligator
The Alligator

Lloyd Ingraham
Process Server

Eugene Pallette
Anti-Volstead Esquire

Syd Chaplin
Freddy Wetherill

Del Andrews
Director

Frank R. Adams
Writer

William Lambert
Writer

Will Lambert
Writer

Frank L. Gereghty
Director of Photography
Details.
Wiki.
The Galloping Fish is a 1924 American silent comedy film directed by Del Andrews and starring Louise Fazenda, Syd Chaplin, Ford Sterling, Chester Conklin, Lucille Ricksen, and John Steppling. It is based on the 1917 novel Friend Wife by Frank R. Adams. The film was released by First National Pictures on March 10, 1924.
The film was later re-released by Selected Pictures in 1930 with talking sequences.