director: William Watson
year: 1926
country: USA
history notes: Unidentified Film No. 159
alternative titles: Bob Dammlich

This film has been identified thanks to contributions from members of the Lost FIlms community.

Main title missing from print. 1st IT: "Bob Dammlich war zur Marine gegangen, um Oelsardinen zu angeln." (Bob Dammlich joined the marines in order to fish for sardines) Slapstick comedy. Bob Dammlich, a marine, [frame scan 1] is to deliver a bunch of flowers and a letter – a private assignment from his Captain. [frame scan 2] In a park. He gives the flowers to a pretty nursemaid. [frame scan 3] He plucks replacement flowers from the park and is followed by a policeman as a result. He unintentionally saves a poodle from a lake. [frame scan 5] The owner of the poodle is the very woman he was supposed to bring the flowers and the letter to. [frame scan 4] The woman is a theatre enthusiast and auditions for a part in an amateur performance of a romantic drama. At short notice, she engages Bob as her partner in the audition, where Bob takes her affected declaration of love [frame scan 6] as genuine. Her husband [frame scan 7] also assumes the performance to be real and reaches for a weapon: Thereafter follows a chase inside and in-front of the house until everything is explained at the end!

Cast: Billy Dooley
Length: 468m, 2 reels
Format: 35mm, 1.33:1
Picture/Sound: b/w, silent
Notes: 'Agfa' (pointed 'A') edgecode

Source notes
Deutsche Kinemathek - Museum für Film und Fernsehen

Amerikanische Erbschaft (identified here as A Salty Sap in January 2009) is another film from the Deutsche Kinemathek's nitrate holdings with the same lead actor, Billy Dooley.
We are looking for the original title, production company and year of this film.

I actually just saw this film last month at Slapsticon in Washington, D.C., and it's A BRINY BOOB, a 10/24/1926 Al Christie comedy that was distributed by Educational Pictures and directed by William Watson. In the scans the sailor is Billy Dooley, the nursemaid is Natalie Joyce, the blonde is Amber Norman, and the man with the moustache driving the car is William Irving.