''The Knickerbocker Buckaroo'' is a 1919 American silent

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film directed by Albert Parker and starring

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, who also wrote (under the pseudonym Elton Thomas) and produced the film.Progressive Silent Film List: ''The Knickerbocker Buckaroo''
at silentera.com ''The Knickerbocker Buckaroo'' is now considered lost.

Synopsis

Fairbanks plays a hedonistic

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aristocrat who tries to change his selfish ways by heading to

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to carry out a campaign of altruism. Along the way, he is mistaken for a

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bandit and is pursued by a corrupt

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who is in pursuit of the bandit's hidden fortune.Thompson, Frank. ''Lost Films: Important Movies That Disappeared'', pages 86-89. Citadel Press, 1996.

Production background

''The Knickerbocker Buckaroo'' was Fairbanks' last film under his contract with

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. After this production, he worked exclusively at

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, a company he co-founded in 1919 with

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, and

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Cast

as Teddy Drake * Marjorie Daw as Rita Allison * William A. Wellman as Henry (Wellman's debut in the film industry) *

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as Crooked Sheriff *

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as Teddy's Mother *

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References

External links

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