Beauty and the Bad Man | |
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Directed by | William Worthington |
Written by | Richard Schayer Frank E. Woods |
Based on | "Cornflower Cassie's Concert" by Peter B. Kyne |
Starring | Mabel Ballin Forrest Stanley Russell Simpson |
Production company | Peninsula Studios |
Distributed by | Producers Distributing Corporation |
Release date |
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Running time | 60 minutes |
Country | United States |
Languages | Silent English intertitles |
Beauty and the Bad Man is a lost 1925 American silent Western film directed by William Worthington and starring Mabel Ballin, Forrest Stanley, and Russell Simpson. [1] [2]
As described in a film magazine review, [3] Cassie, an orphan with vocal abilities, enters the mining town after fleeing from her worthless husband of one day. She meets the gambler, who likes her and stakes her with the money he won after breaking the bank. She uses the money to cultivate her voice, and then returns to the mining town famous. Her old husband wants her to return, and when she refuses he fires a gun, but he is late and is winged by a friend of the gambler. Cassie then realizes her love for the gambler.
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