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Just Pals

192050 minUnited States
Western

Synopsis

Bim, dismissed by his neighbors as the town idler, befriends a boy thrown off a train. Each tries to improve the other's prospects, but an injury, missing money and a bank robbery draw them into suspicion. Their loyalty challenges the town's quick judgments about respectability.

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Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs
49:41
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

DirectorsJohn Ford

Behind the scenes

This was John Ford's first film for Fox, with Buck Jones and Georgie Stone as the unlikely companions. Ford was still credited as Jack Ford, the name used in much of his early work.

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Work catalogued as public domain in the United States.

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  • Buck Jones — Bain News Service; This image is available from the United States Library of Congress 's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID ggbain.39165 . This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing . · Public domain

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