The Fighting Coward

The Fighting Coward
Directed by	James Cruze
Produced by	Adolph Zukor Jesse Lasky
Written by	Walter Woods (scenario)
Based on	Magnolia by Booth Tarkington
Starring	Ernest Torrence Mary Astor Noah Beery, Sr. Cullen Landis
Cinematography	Karl Brown
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release dates	March 30, 1924 (1924-03-30)
Running time	7 reels (6,501 feet)
Country	United States
Language	silent films (English intertitles)

The Fighting Coward is a 1924 American comedy film produced by Famous Players-Lasky, released by Paramount Pictures and directed by James Cruze. The film stars Ernest Torrence, Mary Astor, Noah Beery, Sr., Phyllis Haver and Cullen Landis. It survives in the Library of Congress, George Eastman House and in Gosfilmofond archive in Moscow^[1]^[2]

Based on the play Magnolia by Booth Tarkington.^[3]

Cast

Ernest Torrence - General Orlando Jackson
Mary Astor - Lucy
Noah Beery, Sr. - Captain Blackie
Cullen Landis - Tom Rumford
Phyllis Haver - Elvira
G. Raymond Nye - Major Patterson
Richard Neill - Joe Patterson (billed as Richard R. Neill)
Carmen Phillips - Mexico
Bruce Covington - General Rumford
Helen Dunbar - Mrs. Rumford
Frank Jonasson - Rumbo

References

↑ "Progressive Silent Film List". Silent Era. Retrieved 2015-02-19.
↑ The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog:The Fighting Coward
↑ "Magnolia | IBDB: The official source for Broadway Information IBDB: The official source for Broadway Information". IBDB. 1923-08-27. Retrieved 2015-02-19.

External links

The Fighting Coward at the Internet Movie Database
The Fighting Coward synopsis at AllMovie
period lobby poster (*click for large image)
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lobby poster cardboard cutout of Noah Beery from the film

Booth Tarkington

Works

Monsieur Beaucaire (1900)
Penrod (1914)
Penrod and Sam (1916)
Seventeen (1916)
The Magnificent Ambersons (1918)
Alice Adams (1921)
Gentle Julia (1922)
Penrod Jashber (1929)

Adaptations

Monsieur Beaucaire	Monsieur Beaucaire (1919 operetta) Monsieur Beaucaire (1924 film) Monte Carlo (1930 film) Monsieur Beaucaire (1946 film)

Other films	The Turmoil (1916) The Conquest of Canaan (1921) Clarence (1922, lost) The Man from Home (1922) Gentle Julia (1923, lost) Boy of Mine (1923) Cameo Kirby (1923) Penrod and Sam (1923) The Fighting Coward (1924) Father's Son (1931, lost) Bad Sister (1931) Business and Pleasure (1932) Mississippi (1935) Alice Adams (1935) Penrod and Sam (1937) The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) Presenting Lily Mars (1943) The Magnificent Ambersons (2002)

Newton Booth (uncle)
Freedom of Speech

Films directed by James Cruze

1910s	From Wash to Washington (1914) Too Many Millions (1918) The Dub (1919) Alias Mike Moran (1919) The Roaring Road (1919) You're Fired (1919) The Love Burglar (1919) The Valley of the Giants (1919) The Lottery Man (1919) Hawthorne of the U.S.A. (1919) An Adventure in Hearts (1919)

1920s	Terror Island (1920) Mrs. Temple's Telegram (1920) The Sins of St. Anthony (1920) What Happened to Jones (1920) Food for Scandal (1920) A Full House (1920) Always Audacious (1920) The Charm School (1921) The Dollar-a-Year Man (1921) Gasoline Gus (1921) Crazy to Marry (1921) One Glorious Day (1922) Is Matrimony a Failure? (1922) The Fast Freight (1922) The Dictator (1922) The Old Homestead (1922) Thirty Days (1922) The Covered Wagon (1923) Hollywood (1923) Ruggles of Red Gap (1923) To the Ladies (1923) Leap Year (1924) filmed 1921 The Fighting Coward (1924) The Enemy Sex (1924) Merton of the Movies (1924) The City That Never Sleeps (1924) The Garden of Weeds (1924) The Goose Hangs High (1925) Waking Up the Town (1925) Welcome Home (1925) Beggar on Horseback (1925) Marry Me (1925) The Pony Express (1925) Mannequin (1926) Old Ironsides (1926) The Waiter from the Ritz (1926) never completed or released We're All Gamblers (1927) The City Gone Wild (1927) On to Reno (1928) The Mating Call (1928) The Red Mark (1928) Excess Baggage (1928) The Duke Steps Out (1929) A Man's Man (1929) The Great Gabbo (1929)

1930s	Once a Gentleman (1930) She Got What She Wanted (1930) Salvation Nell (1931) Washington Merry-Go-Round (1932) If I Had a Million (1932) Racetrack (1933) Sailor Be Good (1933) I Cover the Waterfront (1933) Mr. Skitch (1933) David Harum (1934) Their Big Moment (1934) Helldorado (1935) Two-Fisted (1935) Sutter's Gold (1936) The Wrong Road (1937) Prison Nurse (1938) Gangs of New York (1938) Come On, Leathernecks! (1938)

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