Bulldog Courage (1922 film)

Bulldog Courage
Bulldog Courage listed as a double showing with In the Days of Buffalo Bill
Directed by Edward A. Kull
Written by
Story by Jeanne Poe
Starring
Cinematography Harry Neumann[1]
Edited by Fred Allen[1]
Production
companies
Russell Productions[2]
Distributed by State Rights[2]
Release date
  • August 1922 (1922-08) (U.S.)
[1]
Running time
 5 reels[1]
Language Silent (English intertitles)

Bulldog Courage is a 1922 silent Western film directed by Edward A. Kull,[3] and starring George Larkin and Bessie Love. It was written by Larkin and his wife Ollie Kirkby,[4] with a screenplay by Jeanne Poe.[5]

The film is extant, in the collection of the British Film Institute.[6]

Plot

College athlete Jimmy Brent (Larkin) is sent to Wyoming to beat up Big Bob Phillips, his uncle's rival for the hand of Mary Allen. When Jimmy arrives in Wyoming, he falls in love with Gloria Phillips (Love), and decides not to beat up Phillips. When Phillips mistakenly thinks that Jimmy is the cause of cattle rustling, Jimmy fights Phillips, catches the actual cattle rustlers, and gets the girl.[1]

Cast

Production

Filming took place in Oregon.[7]

Reception

Although few contemporaneous reviews of the film exist today, Bessie Love considers this film as one of the first indicators of decline in her silent film career.[8]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Munden, Kenneth White (ed.). The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures. p. 97.
  2. 1 2 "State Rights". Moving Picture World: 712. October 21, 1922.
  3. ↑ "Index to Photoplays". Moving Picture World: 816. October 28, 1922.
  4. ↑ "Finding Aid for the George Larkin Papers, ca. 1915–1946". Online Archive of California.
  5. ↑ Katchmer, George A. (1991). Eighty Silent Film Stars: Biographies and Filmographies of the Obscure to the Well Known. McFarland. p. 467.
  6. ↑ "Bulldog Courage (1922)". British Film Institute.
  7. ↑ "Filmed in Oregon 1908-2015" (PDF). Oregon Film Council. Oregon State Library. Retrieved December 27, 2015.
  8. ↑ Love, Bessie (1977). From Hollywood with Love: An Autobiography of Bessie Love. London: Elm Tree Books. p. 85. OCLC 734075937.
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