''A Broadway Cowboy'' is a 1920 American
silent Western
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comedy film
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directed by
Joseph Franz and starring
William Desmond. It was distributed by
Pathé Exchange
Pathé Exchange, commonly known as Pathé, was an American film production and distribution company, largely of Cinema of the United States, Hollywood's silent film, silent era. Known for its trailblazing newsreel and wide array of short film, s ...
.
Plot
As described in a
film magazine
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, Betty Jordan (Francisco), daughter of a Montana banker, is in the East attending boarding school and falls desperately in love with Burke Randolph (Desmond), a matinee idol, who performs valiant deeds behind the footlights each night in the title role of an old-fashioned melodrama, ''The Western Knight''.
She is expelled from school after Burke treats a chaperon rather roughly during an automobile ride. When Betty returns home to Montana, Sheriff Pat McGann (Delmar), who is in love with her, finds a picture she has of Burke in his cowboy suit, and in a fit of jealousy sends copies of it out to the other neighboring sheriffs with the request that Burke be arrested on sight.
When his show hits a small western town, Burke is arrested. He manages to escape, and in a series of exciting incidents accidentally captures four desperadoes who in the prior night had robbed Betty's father's bank. Burke is proclaimed as a hero and wins Betty as his bride.
Cast
Preservation status
* The film is preserved at
Filmmuseum
Eye Filmmuseum is a film archive, museum, and cinema in Amsterdam that preserves and presents both Dutch and foreign films screened in the Netherlands.
Location and history
Eye Filmmuseum is located in the Overhoeks neighborhood of Amsterdam in ...
Nederlands (EYE Institut).
References
External links
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Lantern slide
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1920 films
Films based on short fiction
1920 Western (genre) films
American black-and-white films
Pathé Exchange films
Films directed by Joseph Franz
1920s Western (genre) comedy films
Films with screenplays by George H. Plympton
1920s American films
Silent American Western (genre) comedy films
1920s English-language films
American silent feature films
Rediscovered American films
Surviving American silent films
1920s rediscovered films
English-language Western (genre) comedy films