It's a Great Life

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It's a Great Life

"A most extraordinary story of College life and Cannibal Islands."

1920

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At a boys' boarding school, young Stoddard and his pal "The Wop" develop a scheme to get rich after "The Wop" finds a pearl in an oyster in a restaurant.

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9 members

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Cullen Landis

Stoddard

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Molly Malone

Eloise Randall

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Clara Horton

Lucille Graham

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Otto Hoffman

Professor Mozier

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Francis X. Bushman Jr.

Big Graham (as Ralph Bushman)

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Howard Ralston

The Wop

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Thomas Persse

Professor Randall (as Tom Pearse)

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E.J. Mack

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John Lynch

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