Beauty and the Bad Man
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| Directed by | William Worthington |
| Written by | Richard Schayer Frank E. Woods |
| Based on | "Cornflower Cassie's Concert" by Peter B. Kyne |
| Starring | Mabel Ballin Forrest Stanley Russell Simpson |
Production company | Peninsula Studios |
| Distributed by | Producers Distributing Corporation |
Release date |
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Running time | 60 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Languages | Silent English intertitles |
Beauty and the Bad Man is a 1925 American silent Western film directed by William Worthington and starring Mabel Ballin, Forrest Stanley, and Russell Simpson.[1][2]
Plot
As described in a film magazine review,[3] Cassie, an orphan with vocal abilities, enters the mining town after fleeing from her worthless husband of one day. She meets the gambler, who likes her and stakes her with the money he won after breaking the bank. She uses the money to cultivate her voice, and then returns to the mining town famous. Her old husband wants her to return, and when she refuses he fires a gun, but he is late and is winged by a friend of the gambler. Cassie then realizes her love for the gambler.
Cast
- Mabel Ballin as Cassie
- Forrest Stanley as Madoc Bill
- Russell Simpson as Chuckwalla Bill
- George Beranger as L.I.B. Bell
- Edna Mae Cooper as Mayme
- James Gordon as Gold Hill Cassidy
Preservation
With no prints of Beauty and the Bad Man located in any film archives,[4] it is a lost film.
References
- ^ Munden, Kenneth W., ed. (1997) [1971]. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press. p. 46. ISBN 0-520-20969-9.
- ^ Progressive Silent Film List: Beauty and the Bad Man at silentera.com
- ^ "New Pictures: Beauty and the Bad Man", Exhibitors Herald, 21 (09): 129, May 23, 1925, retrieved March 7, 2022
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: Beauty and the Bad Man
External links
- Beauty and the Bad Man at IMDb
- Synopsis at AllMovie
- Lantern slide at silenthollywood.com
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- Silent American Western (genre) films
- 1920s English-language films
- 1920s American films
- Films with screenplays by Richard Schayer
- Films about orphans