The Wright Idea
1928, English. Directed by Charles Hines.
Girls, Giggles and Gags! Love Larks and Laughs! With Johnny's inimitable pep just oozing right out of the screen into your heart!
A chipper young inventor seems to have a stroke of good luck when an eccentric millionaire gives him a yacht as a gift… but the “millionaire” is really an escapee from an asylum and the yacht is being used to smuggle illicit spirits by a gang of bootleggers. Can’t win ‘em all…
- Runtime
- 1h 10m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- English
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- Released
- 5 August 1928
- Country
- United States of America
- Written by
- Jack Townley
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The Wright Idea runs 70 minutes (1h 10m).
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The Wright Idea isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 5 August 1928. (Checked 2 November 2026.)
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Who directed The Wright Idea?
The Wright Idea (1928) was directed by Charles Hines and stars Johnny Hines, Louise Lorraine, Edmund Breese.