---
title: 'Jack Straw (1920)'
type: 'film'
director: 'William Churchill deMille'
released: '1920-03-14'
runtime_minutes: 50
genres:
  - 'Comedy'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/jack-straw-1920'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0011343/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Jack Straw (1920)

1920 · 50 min · Comedy · United States


## Synopsis

Jack Straw is a 1920 American silent comedy film produced by Famous Players–Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. William C. deMille directed the film and Robert Warwick and Carroll McComas star. The film is based on a 1908 stage play by W. Somerset Maugham starring John Drew and a young Mary Boland. In 1926 Paramount attempted a remake of this film called The Waiter from the Ritz which was begun and/or completed but never released. James Cruze directed and Raymond Griffith starred; this film, if completed, is now lost. The 1920 film survives at the Library of Congress.

## Credits

- **Director:** [William Churchill deMille](https://cinepixo.com/people/william-churchill-demille)
- **Screenplay:** [Elmer Blaney Harris](https://cinepixo.com/people/elmer-blaney-harris), [Olga Printzlau](https://cinepixo.com/people/olga-printzlau)
- **Producer:** [Adolph Zukor](https://cinepixo.com/people/adolph-zukor), [Jesse Louis Lasky](https://cinepixo.com/people/jesse-louis-lasky)
- **Director of Photography:** [L. Guy Wilky](https://cinepixo.com/people/l-guy-wilky)

## Cast

- [Robert Warwick](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-warwick)
- [Carroll McComas](https://cinepixo.com/people/carroll-mccomas)

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