Wild and Woolly
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| Wild and Woolly | |
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 Theatrical poster to Wild and Woolly |
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| Directed by | John Emerson |
| Written by | Anita Loos from a story by Horace B. Carpenter |
| Starring | Douglas Fairbanks Eileen Percy Walter Bytell Sam De Grasse |
| Release date(s) | 24 June 1917 |
| Country | USA |
| Language | Silent films English intertitles |
Wild and Woolly is a 1917 silent film which tells the story of one man's personal odyssey from sophisticated Easterner to Western tough guy. It stars Douglas Fairbanks, Eileen Percy, Walter Bytell and Sam De Grasse.
The movie was adapted by Anita Loos from a story by Horace B. Carpenter and was directed by John Emerson. The film was shot in Fort Lee, New Jersey, where many early film studios in America's first motion picture industry were based there at the beginning of the 20th century.[1][2][3] It was inducted into the National Film Registry in 2002.
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[edit] Cast
- Douglas Fairbanks - Jeff Hillington
- Eileen Percy - Nell Larabee
- Walter Bytell - Collis J. Hillington
- Joseph Singleton - Judson, the Butler
- Calvert Carter - Tom Larabee, the Hotel Keeper
- Forrest Seabury - Banker
- J. W. Jones - Lawyer
- Charles Stevens - Pedro
- Sam De Grasse - Steve Shelby, the Indian Agent
- Tom Wilson - Casey the Engineer
- Ruth Allen
- Edward Burns
- Wharton James
unbilled
- Monte Blue - One of Wild Bill's Men
- Adolphe Menjou - undetermined
- Bull Montana - Bartender
[edit] Other versions
- Wild and Woolly is the title of a 1931 documentary about rodeos.[4]
- Wild and Woolly was used again in a 1937 comedy western starring Jane Withers about a bank robbery during a town's anniversary party.[5]
- The title was also misspelled in an unrelated 1978 comedy western TV movie titled Wild and Wooly.[6]
[edit] References
- ^ Kozarski, Ricchard (2004), Fort Lee: The Film Town, Rome, Italy: John Libbey Publishing -CIC srl, ISBN 0-86196-653-8, http://books.google.nl/books?id=5w0r8YKan04C&printsec=frontcover&dq=Fort+Lee:+the+film+town+Door+Richard+Koszarski#v=onepage&q&f=false
- ^ "Studios and Films". Fort Lee Film Commmission. http://www.fortleefilm.org/studios.html. Retrieved 2011-05-30.
- ^ Fort Lee Film Commission (2006), Fort Lee Birthplace of the Motion Picture Industry, Arcadia Publishing, ISBN 0-7385-4501-5, http://books.google.com/books?id=ViR3b72xkK0C&printsec=frontcover&dq=Fort+Lee+Birthplace+of+the+Motion+Picture+Industry#v=onepage&q&f=false
- ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0162767/
- ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029779/
- ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078494/
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