Wild and Woolly

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Wild and Woolly
Directed by John Emerson
Written by Anita Loos
from a story by Horace B. Carpenter
Starring Douglas Fairbanks
Eileen Percy
Walter Bytell
Sam De Grasse
Release date(s) 24 June 1917
Country Flag of the United States United States
Language Silent films
English intertitles
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Wild and Woolly is a 1917 silent film which tells the story of one man's personal odyssey from sophisticated Easterner to Western tough guy. It stars Douglas Fairbanks, Eileen Percy, Walter Bytell and Sam De Grasse.

The movie was adapted by Anita Loos from a story by Horace B. Carpenter. It was directed by John Emerson. It was inducted into the National Film Registry in 2002.

[edit] 1931 version

Wild and Woolly is also the title of a 1931 documentary about rodeos

[edit] 1937 version

The title Wild and Woolly was used again in a 1937 comedy western starring Jane Withers about a bank robbery during a town's anniversary party.

[edit] 1978 version

Finally, the title was misspelled in an unrelated 1978 comedy western TV movie, Wild and Wooly.