''A Man of Nerve'' is a 1925 American silent

western film The Western is a film genre defined by the American Film Institute as films which are "set in the American West that mbodythe spirit, the struggle, and the demise of the new frontier." Generally set in the American frontier between the Calif ...

directed by

Louis Chaudet Louis William Chaudet (March 20, 1884 – May 10, 1965) was an American film director of the silent movie era. Biography He was born on March 20, 1884, in Manhattan, Kansas. He died May 10, 1965, in Woodland Hills, California. Louis was the s ...

and starring

Bob Custer Bob Custer (born Raymond Anthony Glenn, October 18, 1898 – December 27, 1974) was an American film actor who appeared in over 50 films, mostly Westerns, between 1924 and 1937, including '' The Fighting Hombre'', '' Arizona Days'', '' The L ...

Jean Arthur Jean Arthur (born Gladys Georgianna Greene; October 17, 1900 – June 19, 1991) was an American film and theater actress whose career began in silent films in the early 1920s and lasted until the early 1950s. Arthur had feature roles in three F ...

and David Dunbar. It was distributed by

Film Booking Offices of America Film Booking Offices of America (FBO), registered as FBO Pictures Corp., was an American film studio of the Silent film, silent era, a midsize producer and distributor of mostly low-budget films. The business began in 1918 as Robertson-Cole, an ...

, a forerunner of

RKO Pictures RKO Radio Pictures Inc., commonly known as RKO Pictures or simply RKO, is an American film production and distribution company, historically one of the major film studios, "Big Five" film studios of Cinema of the United States, Hollywood's Clas ...

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Cast

as Hackamore Henderson *

as Loria Gatlin *

Leon Holmes Leon, Léon (French) or León (Spanish) may refer to: Places Europe * León, Spain, capital city of the Province of León * Province of León, Spain * Kingdom of León, an independent state in the Iberian Peninsula from 910 to 1230 and again fro ...

as Buddy Simms * David Dunbar as Rangey Greer * Buck Moulton as Bandit *

Ralph McCullough Ralph McCullough (1895–1943) was an American film actor of the silent era who occasionally played lead role, male leads as well as more numerous supporting roles. Later in his career he mostly appeared in smaller, often uncredited, roles in the ...

as Art Gatlin

References

Bibliography

* Connelly, Robert B. ''The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36, Volume 40, Issue 2''. December Press, 1998. * Munden, Kenneth White. ''The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1''. University of California Press, 1997. * Oller, John. ''Jean Arthur: The Actress Nobody Knew''. Limelight Editions, 1999. * Rainey, Buck. ''Sweethearts of the Sage: Biographies and Filmographies of 258 actresses appearing in Western movies''. McFarland & Company, 1992.

External links

* 1925 films 1925 Western (genre) films Films directed by Louis Chaudet American black-and-white films Film Booking Offices of America films Silent American Western (genre) films 1920s English-language films 1920s American films English-language Western (genre) films {{1920s-Western-film-stub