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Eddie Boland and Ethel Broadhurst.
Photograph: Silent Era image collection.
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Prince Pistachio
(1921) United States of America
B&W : One reel
Directed by Nick Barrows (Nicholas T. Barrows)
Cast: Eddie Boland [Prince Pistachio], Ethel Broadhurst [Princess Paprika], Jean Hope [the chicken-and-egg victim], Robert Emmett O’Connor [Jazzo de Gorgonzola], Molly Thompson [the gas leak customer], Lilymae Wilkinson [the match-striking victim], Harold Adkins, Dagmar Dahlgren, Bruce Gordon, Wallace Howe (Wally Howe), Dolores Johnson, Julie Leonard, Noah Young, The Vanity Fair Girls
The Rolin Film Company production; distributed by Pathé Exchange, Incorporated. / Produced by Hal Roach. Presented by Hal Roach. / Released 20 February 1921. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / A film in “The Vanity Fair Girls” series.
Comedy.
Synopsis: [The Moving Picture World, 5 March 1921, page ?] Eddie appears as a plumber who hunts for a gas leak with a lighted candle. Following the inevitable explosion he has a dream in which he is transported to a distant province, where he becomes prince of the realm and is surrounded by many fair women.
Survival status: Print exists.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 5 July 2025.
References: Website-IMDb.
Home video: DVD.
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