A Harp in Hock is a lost 1927 silent film melodrama produced by DeMille Pictures and distributed by Pathé Exchange. The film starred Rudolph Schildkraut, Junior Coghlan, May Robson, and Bessie Love and was directed by Renaud Hoffman.
Réalisé parAlan Hale OrigineEtats-Unis GenresComédie ThèmesTransport, Road movie ActeursBessie Love, Frank Coghlan, Jr., May Robson, Harrison Ford, Clarence Burton Note66% The Stack family of New York City has fallen on difficult financial times. Pa Stack squandered the family's money by buying a home in Newhall, California, hoping that there would be oil on the land. Taxes are now due on the California home, which is scheduled to be sold to cover taxes. When breadwinner Mary Ellen Stack loses her job, the family decides to pay the taxes and live in their California home. They sell their furniture and use the money to buy a Tourist brand car, complete with rubber tires.
La veille de Pâques, John Carter, un employé d'une compagnie d'assurances, rentre chez lui, dans son cottage de banlieue où il vit avec sa femme et ses deux filles. Les Carter ont une vie heureuse jusqu'à ce que le caissier Charles Ryder soit assassiné par le gardien de nuit, un cocaïnomane en manque d'argent, et que Carter soit accusé car il travaillait avec Ryder ce soir-là. Durant l'interrogatoire très musclé de la police, Carter agit comme un coupable, mais un reporter, Ned Fowler, amoureux d'Helen, une des filles de Carter, intervient. Après que le gardien, arrêté pour s'être battu et en manque, s'est confessé, Carter est relâché, mais le président le la compagnie d'assurances Ira Wolcott ne veut pas le réintégrer à cause de sa "notoriété".
"Happy" Farrell (Moore) wants to be a famous song and dance man. He befriends a young dancer, Leola (Love), who accompanies him to an audition. Leola is given a contract, but Happy is not. Happy changes careers and becomes successful, but still yearns to be a song and dance man. After three years, Leola plans to retire from dancing so that she can get married, but Happy returns to pursue his original dream. Leola is inspired by this, and her fiancé agrees to let her continue her dancing career.