White Pants Willie(1927)

Name: White Pants Willie
Director: Charles Hines
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1927-01-01
Duration: 70 min
Cast: Johnny Hines, Leila Hyams, Henry A. Barrows, Ruth Dwyer, Walter Long

Johnny Hines Leila Hyams Henry A. Barrows Ruth Dwyer Walter Long

Philip Charters, the President of International Motors, and his daughter, Helen, drive up to the shop of Willie Bascom, an auto mechanic. Charters is interested in an invention by Willie, and Willie quickly becomes interested in Helen. They depart for Cold Springs, a fashionable summer resort for the rich. Willie images that Cold Springs is such a place where a young man wearing white pants would not be jeered at. He gets a chance to find out when he has to repair a car and take it to the owner in Cold Springs. He summons Wong Lee, a Chinese laundryman to pose as his chauffeur, dons his spiffiest pair of white pants,arrives at the resort and is mistaken for a crack polo player, hired to help the resort's team beat a rival team. Willie is anything but a polo player.