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The Poor Nut

1927
Silent Feature
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This silent black and white release from 1927 starred Jack Mulhall, Charles Murray, and Jean Arthur. The screenplay written by Paul Schofield and Jack Wagner was based on a play, a comedy in three acts, written by Elliott Nugent and J.C. Nugent in 1925. The story is of a top scholar who has an inferiority complex when it comes to sports brags to his girl friend that he is a track star. Going out for the team, he loses to his rival, but another girl gives him the support he needs to try again.


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