Bucking Broadway

Infobox Film | name = Bucking Broadway


director = John Ford
producer = Harry Carey
writer = George Hively
starring = Harry Carey
Molly Malone
music =
cinematography = John W. Brown
Ben F. Reynolds
editing =
distributor =
released = December 24, 1917 (U.S. release)
runtime = 53 min (restored version)
country = USA
language = Silent film
English intertitles
budget =
imdb_id = 0007755

"Bucking Broadway" is a 1917 film by John Ford, probably his sixth feature film. Long thought to be lost, along with about 60 of Ford's 70 silent films, it was found in 2002 in the archives of the CNC (the French National Center for Cinematography) cite web |url=http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/B/BuckingBroadway1917.html |title=Progressive Silent Film List: Bucking Broadway |accessdate=2008-02-22|work=Silent Era] . It was subsequently restored and digitized.

Plot

On a ranch in Wyoming, one of the cowboys, Cheyenne Harry (Harry Carey), falls in love with his boss's daughter. But she decides to elope to the city with Captain Thornton, a wealthy visitor to the ranch. She quickly discovers that life in the city is not what she expected. Cheyenne, devastated by the loss of his fiancée, decides to go to the city to find her, and in the end rescues her from the grips of Captain Thornton and from the extravagant and decadent way of life in the city.

Cast

* Harry Carey - Cheyenne Harry
* Molly Malone - Helen
* L. M. Wells - Her Father
* Vester Pegg - Thornton
* William Steele - Foreman (as William Gettinger)
* Gertrude Astor - Gladys (uncredited)
* Martha Mattox - Shocked Customer in Store (uncredited)

ee also

* Harry Carey filmography
* List of rediscovered films

References

External links

*imdb title|id=0007755|title=Bucking Broadway
* [http://www.europafilmtreasures.eu/fiche_technique.htm?ID=246 Bucking Broadway available] on [http://www.europafilmtreasures.eu/ Europa Film Treasures]