Beggar on Horseback is 1925 American surreal silent comedy film based upon the 1924 play Beggar on Horseback written by Marc Connelly and George S. Kaufman.

It was adapted for the screen by Walter Woods and directed by James Cruze.

It stars Edward Everett Horton, Esther Ralston, Erwin Connelly, Gertrude Short, Ethel Wales, Theodore Kosloff, and Betty Compson.

[1][2] As described in a film magazine review,[3] a young idealistic jazz composer is on the verge of a nervous breakdown, and feels that he cannot continue a relationship with a sympathetic young woman because of a lack of funds.

He is considering marrying a rich young woman who worships jazz, and falls asleep and dreams a horrible nightmare of his life as her husband.