| The Bandit's Baby | |
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| Directed by | James P. Hogan |
| Written by | Marion Jackson |
| Story by | Leete Renick Brown |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Ross Fisher |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Film Booking Offices of America |
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Running time | 50 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
The Bandit's Baby is a 1925 American silent Western film directed by James P. Hogan and starring Fred Thomson and Helen Foster. [1] [2]
As described in a film magazine review, [3] forced to hide in the hills with his horse Silver when he was unjustly accused of murder, Tom Bailey consents to return to ride in a rodeo when he is granted amnesty for one day. He also acts as a judge at a baby show and picks for first prize the baby brother of Esther Lacy, whose drunken stepfather, Matt Hartigan, is the real murderer. Tom wins the race and foils the sheriff's plan to arrest him by riding away. Esther goes to her brother in Carson City, while Tom keeps custody of the baby. Later Tom saves Esther and the baby, the latter by beating a train headed to an unused spur.
Film Booking Offices of America (FBO), registered as FBO Pictures Corp., was an American film studio of the silent era, a midsize producer and distributor of mostly low-budget films. The business began in 1918 as Robertson-Cole, an Anglo-American import-export company. Robertson-Cole began distributing films in the United States that December and opened a Los Angeles production facility in 1920. Late that year, R-C entered into a working relationship with East Coast financier Joseph P. Kennedy. A business reorganization in 1922 led to the company's assumption of the new FBO name. Two years later, the studio contracted with Western leading man Fred Thomson, who within a couple years was one of Hollywood's most popular stars. Thomson was just one of several silent screen cowboys with whom FBO became identified.
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