09 Aug 1920
If I Were King
J. Gordon Edwards silent adventure melodrama about a famous poet who is allowed to rule France for a week!
Life's Greatest Problem
Big Steve and Little Lefty, a pair of hobos, are happily drifting through life until the First World War comes and enter it and find their lives forever changed.
Top Billed Cast
Mitchell Lewis Big Steve Reardon
Rubye De Remer Alice Webster
Ida Darling Mrs. Craig
Helen Ferguson Miriam Craig
Sidney D'Albrook An Agitator
Gus Alexander Little Lefty
John P. Wade John Craig
John Goldsworthy Frank Craig (as John H. Goldsworthy)
John W. Martin Shipyard Superintendent
Bernard Randall Craig's Secretary
Aubrey Beattie Wilkins
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