page_title: The Cock-Eyed World
section_title: Plot
hierarchical_section_title: The Cock-Eyed World / Plot
caption_attribution_description: Cropped promotional photo of Lili Damita and Victor McLaglen for The Cock-Eyed World.
context_page_description: The Cock-Eyed World is a 1929 American pre-Code musical comedy feature film. One of the earliest "talkies", it was a sequel to What Price Glory?, it was directed and written by Raoul Walsh and based on the Flagg and Quirt story by Maxwell Anderson, Tom Barry, Wilson Mizner and Laurence Stallings. Fox Film Corporation released the film at the Roxy in New York on August 3, 1929.
  The film stars Victor McLaglen and Edmund Lowe, reprising their original roles, as well as Lili Damita. The picture was also released in a silent version on October 5, 1929.
context_section_description: Flagg (Victor McLaglen) and Quirt (Edmund Lowe) find themselves transferred from Russia to Brooklyn to South America, in each place squaring off over a local beauty.
  The film remains one of the earliest screen sequels to a critical and popular success with the two lead actors playing the same characters, as well as the original writers and director intact from the first picture.
caption: Lili Damita and Victor McLaglen in The Cock-Eyed World
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