Bulldog Courage (1922 film)
| Bulldog Courage | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Edward A. Kull |
| Written by | |
| Story by | Jeanne Poe |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Harry Neumann[1] |
| Edited by | Fred Allen[1] |
Production companies |
Russell Productions[2] |
| Distributed by | State Rights[2] |
Release dates |
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Running time | 5 reels[1] |
| Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
Bulldog Courage is a 1922 silent Western film directed by Edward A. Kull,[3] and starring George Larkin and Bessie Love. It was written by Larkin and his wife Ollie Kirkby,[4] with a screenplay by Jeanne Poe.[5]
The film is extant, in the collection of the British Film Institute.[6]
Plot
College athlete Jimmy Brent (Larkin) is sent to Wyoming to beat up Big Bob Phillips, his uncle's rival for the hand of Mary Allen. When Jimmy arrives in Wyoming, he falls in love with Gloria Phillips (Love), and decides not to beat up Phillips. When Phillips mistakenly thinks that Jimmy is the cause of cattle rustling, Jimmy fights Phillips, catches the actual cattle rustlers, and gets the girl.[1]
Cast
- George Larkin as Jimmy Brent[1]
- Bessie Love as Gloria Phillips
- Albert MacQuarrie as John Morton
- Karl Silvera as Smokey Evans
- Frank Whitman as Big Bob Phillips
- Bill Patton as Sheriff Webber
- Barbara Tennant as Mary Allen
Reception
Although few contemporaneous reviews of the film exist today, Bessie Love considers this film as one of the first indicators of decline in her silent film career.[7]
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Munden, Kenneth White (ed.). The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures. p. 97.
- 1 2 "State Rights". Moving Picture World: 712. October 21, 1922.
- ↑ "Index to Photoplays". Moving Picture World: 816. October 28, 1922.
- ↑ "Finding Aid for the George Larkin Papers, ca. 1915–1946". Online Archive of California.
- ↑ Katchmer, George A. (1991). Eighty Silent Film Stars: Biographies and Filmographies of the Obscure to the Well Known. McFarland. p. 467.
- ↑ "Bulldog Courage (1922)". British Film Institute.
- ↑ Love, Bessie (1977). From Hollywood with Love: An Autobiography of Bessie Love. London: Elm Tree Books. p. 85. OCLC 734075937.