Bulldog Courage (1922 film)

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Bulldog Courage
Bulldog Courage 1922 double showing.jpg
Bulldog Courage listed as a double showing with In the Days of Buffalo Bill
Directed by Edward A. Kull
Written by
Story byJeanne Poe
Starring
Cinematography Harry Neumann [1]
Edited by Fred Allen [1]
Production
company
Russell Productions [2]
Distributed byState Rights [2]
Release date
  • August 1922 (1922-08)(U.S.) [1]
Running time
5 reels [1]
CountryUnited States
Languages Silent
English intertitles

Bulldog Courage is a 1922 American 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] It was produced by Russell Productions [2] and distributed by State Rights. [2]

Contents

The film is preserved 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 Bob. When Bob mistakenly thinks that Jimmy is the cause of cattle rustling, Jimmy fights him, catches the actual cattle rustlers, and ends up with Gloria. [1]

Cast

Production

Filming took place in Oregon. [7] [8]

Reception

Although few contemporaneous reviews of the film exist today, Bessie Love considered this film as one of the first indicators of decline in her silent film career. [9]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Munden, Kenneth W., ed. (1971). The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States: Feature Films 1921–1930 . New York: R.R. Bowker Company. p.  97. ISBN   9780520215214. OCLC   664500075.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "State Rights". Moving Picture World. October 21, 1922. p.  712.
  3. ↑ "Index to Photoplays". Moving Picture World. October 28, 1922. p.  816.
  4. ↑ "Finding Aid for the George Larkin Papers, ca. 1915–1946". Online Archive of California.
  5. ↑ Katchmer, George A. (1991). Eighty Silent Film Stars: Biographies and Filmographies of the Obscure to the Well Known. McFarland. p. 467.
  6. ↑ "Bulldog Courage (1922)". British Film Institute.
  7. ↑ "Filmed in Oregon 1908–2015" (PDF). Oregon Film Council. Oregon State Library. Retrieved December 27, 2015.
  8. ↑ Gaberscek, Carlo; Stier, Kenny (2014). In Search of Western Movie Sites. Lulu.com. ISBN   978-1-312-62502-0.
  9. ↑ Love, Bessie (1977). From Hollywood with Love: An Autobiography of Bessie Love. London: Elm Tree Books. p. 85. OCLC   734075937.
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