A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2025 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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The Big Idea
(1924) United States of America
B&W : One reel
Directed by George Jeske

Cast: Snub Pollard [Ignatius Pollard, the inventor], Blanche Mehaffey [the girl], Glenn Tryon [Allawishus, the mayor’s son], Billy Engle [the city engineer], George Rowe [the patent attorney]; [?] ? [the town mayor], Jack Ackroyd [a town council member], Al Forbes [a town council member], Marvin Loback [the fat town council member]

Hal Roach Studios, Incorporated, production; distributed by Pathé Exchange, Incorporated [Pathécomedy]. / Produced by Hal Roach. / © January 1924 by Pathé Exchange, Incorporated. Released [?] 1 or 13? January 1924. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Comedy.

Survival status: Prints exist in the film holdings of Film Preservation Associates (Blackhawk Films collection) [16mm reduction positive]; and in private film collections [8mm reduction positives].

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 25 July 2024.

References: Film credits, film viewing : Website-IMDb.

Home video: DVD.