Collette Merton

Episode #5 in the third series of the Universal Pictures serial "The Collegians".

This 1929 drama about mistaken identities contains three eight minute scenes that involve talking. The rest of the film is silent and subtitled. The trouble begins when the hero follows a pretty lady aboard an ocean liner. He boards the ship using the name of his friend who was supposed to take the cruise for health reasons. The friend was told that if he did not board the boat, he would not receive his inheritance. Unfortunately for the hero, a male nurse believes that he is the sick friend and forces him to stay in the cabin and subsist upon a diet of goat's milk.

A flapper unwittingly falls for the boss' son.

Lou Ricarno est un gangster raffiné dont la tâche consiste à faire en sorte que les truands ne s’entretuent pas. Très bon dans son activité, il choisit néanmoins de se retirer en Floride en compagnie de sa ravissante femme, pour y écrire sa biographie et profiter de la vie. Mais son passé frappe rapidement à sa porte…