The Cock-Eyed World

The Cock-Eyed World
The Cock-Eyed World
	Original film poster
Directed by	Raoul Walsh
Written by	Raoul Walsh; William K. Wells; Wilbur Morse Jr.; Maxwell Anderson; Wilson Mizner; Laurence Stallings; Tom Barry
Starring	Victor McLaglen; Edmund Lowe; Lili Damita
Cinematography	Arthur Edeson
Edited by
Distributed by	Fox Film Corporation
Release date	August 3, 1929
Running time	118 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$2.7 million

The Cock-Eyed World is a 1929 American pre-Code musical comedy feature film. One of the earliest "talkies", it was a sequel to What Price Glory? (1926), it was directed and written by Raoul Walsh and based on the Flagg and Quirt story by Maxwell Anderson, Tom Barry, Wilson Mizner and Laurence Stallings. Fox Film Corporation released the film at the Roxy in New York on August 3, 1929.^[3]

The film stars Victor McLaglen and Edmund Lowe, reprising their original roles, as well as Lili Damita.^[4] The picture was also released in a silent version on October 5, 1929.^[5]

The Cock Eyed World ad in The Film Daily, 1929

Plot[]

Lili Damita and Victor McLaglen in The Cock-Eyed World

Flagg (Victor McLaglen) and Quirt (Edmund Lowe) find themselves transferred from Russia to Brooklyn to South America, in each place squaring off over a local beauty.

The film remains one of the earliest screen sequels to a critical and popular success with the two lead actors playing the same characters, as well as the original writers and director intact from the first picture.

Cast[]

Victor McLaglen as Top Sergeant Flagg
Edmund Lowe as Sergeant Harry Quirt
Lili Damita as Mariana Elenita
Leila Karnelly as Olga
El Brendel as 'Yump' Olson
Joe Brown as Brownie
Stuart Erwin as Buckley

Opening week record[]

According to Variety, the film beat every known gross for any box office attraction throughout the world with a reported first week gross of $173,391 at the Roxy.^[6] It grossed another record $173,667 in its second week.^[7]