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OPEN CLASSIC CINEMA · 976

Bucking Broadway

191753 minUnited States

Synopsis

Cheyenne Harry loves the daughter of his Wyoming ranch employer, but a wealthy visitor persuades her to leave for New York. Harry follows her into a world of hotels and fashionable parties. When she discovers the character of the man she has chosen, the cowboy and his friends find themselves bringing a frontier-style rescue to the city.

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Video edition: Wikimedia Commons
Original language: No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs: 54:16
Subtitles: No subtitle track in this language

No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

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Wikimedia Commons · John Ford · Public domain

Cast

Harry Carey

Molly Malone

DirectorsJohn Ford

Behind the scenes

One of John Ford's surviving early features, Bucking Broadway was rediscovered in the French CNC archives in 2002. Its restoration returned a film that connects Harry Carey's cowboy character with the unfamiliar social spaces of New York.

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Work catalogued as public domain in the United States.

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Harry Carey — film screenshot · Public domain
Molly Malone — Unknown author Unknown author; J. Willis Sayre Collection of Theatrical Photographs · Public domain

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