Take the Heir

Take the Heir is a 1930 American synchronized comedy sound film directed by Lloyd Ingraham and starring Edward Everett Horton, Dorothy Devore and Edythe Chapman.

[1] While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects and featured a theme song that was sung by an uncredited tenor.

A review in the Motion Picture News considered the film "very, very weak" and a waste of Everett Horton's talents.

An English aristocrat Lord Tweedham inherits property in the United States.

At the house of the executor Smithers falls in love with Susan the maid while being pursued by his daughter Muriel under the impression that he is Tweedham.