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| ~Wild and Woolly~ 1917 |
| Directed by: John Emerson Written by: Horace B. Carpenter - story John Emerson Anita Loos |
| ~Cast~ Douglas Fairbanks ... Jeff Hillington Eileen Percy ... Nell Larabee Calvert Carter ... Tom Larabee - Hotel Keeper Charles Stevens ... Pedro Sam De Grasse ... Steve Shelby - Indian Agent (as Sam de Grasse) Ruth Allen Monte Blue ... One of Wild Bill's Men (uncredited) Edward Burns Walter Bytell ... Collis J. Hillington (uncredited) Wharton James ... Lawyer (uncredited) Adolphe Menjou Bull Montana ... Bartender (uncredited) Forrest Seabury ... Banker (uncredited) Joseph Singleton ... Judson - Butler (uncredited) Tom Wilson ... Casey - Engineer (uncredited) |
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| ~Remaining Credits~ Production Company: Douglas Fairbanks Pictures Distribution Company: Artcraft Pictures Corporation Produced by: Douglas Fairbanks Cinematography by: Victor Fleming Film Editing by: William Shea Second Unit Director/Assistant Director: Joseph Henabery Assistant Cinematographer: Glen MacWilliams General Manager: John Fairbanks Length: 5 Reels Runtime: 72 Minutes Released: June 24, 1917 Filmed at: Nogales, Arizona, USA Burbank, California, USA Saugus, California, USA Newhall, California, USA Saugus Train Depot, Saugus, California, USA Central Park, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA Fort Lee, New Jersey, USA |
| ~Plot Synopsis~ |
Jeff Hillington (Douglas Fairbanks) is the extremely naive son of a wealthy Eastern family -- he loves
the Old West so much that he virtually lives it in his room. The knocker on his door is a pistol and he
has a dummy horse which he leaps on now and again (actually Fairbanks was a little old for such
shenanigans even in 1917, but this is easily overlooked). When his father (Walter Bytell) sends him to
Arizona on business, Jeff expects it to be the place he read about in dime-store novels, and to
appease him, the townsfolk put on a Wild West show. But instead of presenting a mock hold up,
Steve (Sam deGrasse) and Pedro (Charles Stevens) make it real -- and they also kidnap a girl, Nell
(Eileen Percy). No one knows what to do except Jeff, who uses every western cliché in the book (quite
hilariously) to capture the bandits and save the girl. This tasty Fairbanks confection was one of many
that was the product of screenwriter Anita Loos and director John Emerson.
Plot Synopsis by Janiss Garza, AllMovie.com
the Old West so much that he virtually lives it in his room. The knocker on his door is a pistol and he
has a dummy horse which he leaps on now and again (actually Fairbanks was a little old for such
shenanigans even in 1917, but this is easily overlooked). When his father (Walter Bytell) sends him to
Arizona on business, Jeff expects it to be the place he read about in dime-store novels, and to
appease him, the townsfolk put on a Wild West show. But instead of presenting a mock hold up,
Steve (Sam deGrasse) and Pedro (Charles Stevens) make it real -- and they also kidnap a girl, Nell
(Eileen Percy). No one knows what to do except Jeff, who uses every western cliché in the book (quite
hilariously) to capture the bandits and save the girl. This tasty Fairbanks confection was one of many
that was the product of screenwriter Anita Loos and director John Emerson.
Plot Synopsis by Janiss Garza, AllMovie.com
