Billy Jim

Billy Jim
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
Release date	January 29, 1922 (1922-01-29)
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]

Plot

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.

Cast

• Fred Stone as Billy Jim
• Millicent Fisher as Marsha Dunforth
• George Hernandez as Dudley Dunforth
• Billy Bletcher as Jimmy
• Marian Skinner as Mrs. Dunforth
• Frank Thorne as Roy Forsythe

References

1. Munden p.61

Bibliography

• Munden, Kenneth White. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press, 1997.

External links

• Billy Jim at IMDb