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Directed by | Frank Borzage |
Written by | Frank Howard Clark Jackson Gregory |
Produced by | Andrew J. Callaghan |
Starring | Fred Stone Marian Skinner George Hernandez |
Production company | Fred Stone Productions |
Distributed by | Robertson-Cole Distributing Corporation |
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Running time | 51 minutes |
Country | United States |
Languages | Silent English intertitles |
Billy Jim is a 1922 American silent comedy western film directed by Frank Borzage and starring Fred Stone, Marian Skinner and George Hernandez. [1]
Billy Jim is a wealthy westerner posing as a happy-go-lucky cowboy. He boards a train and gets into an argument with a man. He meets a girl who berates him for his actions. However, he falls in love with her. Later, while drunk, he finds her bound to a chair in a cabin and after releasing her learns that she is traveling with her father to a resort. Billy Jim then robs some men playing a card game and hires a driver to take him to the girl's father's resort. He learns the resort is next to a mining camp, which the father also owns. The sheriff then arrives to arrest him for stealing money. It is revealed that he is a wealthy cattle owner. Billy Jim departs, but the girl follows to return his gun.
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