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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	Lige Conley (left) and Jimmie Adams. Frame enlargement: Silent Era image collection.

Cast: Jimmie Adams [a parolee], Lige Conley [a parolee], Marvel Rea [the diving girl], Frank J. Coleman [the girl’s husband], [?] Sidney Smith?, [?] ? [the prison warden], [?] ? [the soup-slurping diner], [?] ? [the restaurant manager]

[?] Jack White Productions and/or Educational Films Corporation of America and/or Astra Film Corporation? production; distributed by Educational Film Exchanges, Incorporated [Mermaid Comedies]. / Produced by Jack White. Presented by E.W. Hammons. / Released 27 June 1920. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Reputed to be the first film in the series of Mermaid Comedies branded short comedies.

Comedy.

Survival status: Print exists in a private film collection [[?] 8mm or 9.5mm? reduction positive (incomplete)].

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 30 May 2025.

References: Film viewing : Website-IMDb.

Home video: DVD.