In France during World War I, an American doughboy attempts to recover a car carrying a payroll of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars that was stolen by German spies.
Spuds was not well received and Semon, who had largely financed the film on his own, lost all of his remaining money.[3]Spuds was his last feature film, and he filed for bankruptcy in March 1928.[4] He died of pneumonia and tuberculosis on October 8, 1928.
Munden, Kenneth White. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press, 1997.