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Director:
John Emerson
Writers:
Horace B. Carpenter (story)
John Emerson (writer)
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Release Date:
24 June 1917 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Western | Romance more
Plot:
A rich young Easterner who has always wanted to live in "the Wild West" plans to move to a Western town... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
1 win more
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Creation of a Comedian more

Cast

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Douglas Fairbanks ... Jeff Hillington
Eileen Percy ... Nell Larabee
Walter Bytell ... Collis J. Hillington
Joseph Singleton ... Judson, the Butler
Calvert Carter ... Tom Larabee, the Hotel Keeper
Forrest Seabury ... Banker
J.W. Jones ... Lawyer
Charles Stevens ... Pedro
Sam De Grasse ... Steve Shelby, the Indian Agent
Tom Wilson ... Casey the Engineer
Ruth Allen
Edward Burns (as Ed Burns)
Wharton James (as James Wharton James)
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
A Regular Guy (USA) (working title)
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Runtime:
47 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Silent

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Movie Connections:
Edited into Days of Thrills and Laughter (1961) more

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Creation of a Comedian, 9 July 2005
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Before redirecting his career to swashbuckling adventure flicks with 'The Mark of Zorro' in 1920, Douglas Fairbanks starred in modern comedies. He repeated the role of a modern mollycoddle, who usually returns comically to his Western roots, such as in this film, 'Wild and Woolly.' He teamed with screenwriter Anita Loos, who pioneered the craft working for D.W. Griffith, and her husband director John Emerson to cement the first of Fairbanks' two popular incarnations. According to the print I saw, Victor Fleming ('The Wizard of Oz,' 'Gone with the Wind') is credited with photography here, and he worked on other Fairbanks vehicles, beginning his directorial career making them.

The presence of Loos is readily noticeable in the quantity of intertitles, which contributed much of the humour to Fairbanks vehicles, and thus redefined the role of title cards in silent films. In 'Wild and Woolly,' as elsewhere, they help to undercut the film by poking fun at itself and movies in general, such as in the scene where Fairbanks goes to a picture-play to have his dreams of the wild West come true--even in New York. The entire film plays around with the fact that movies romanticize bygone eras. The ending, too, jests at itself with the insertion of one intertitle.

The pacing is also a nice compliment to Fairbanks' performance; the editing is as energetic and frantic as he is. It's congruity taken straight from the book of Mack Sennett's Keystone comedies. Additionally, Faribanks' acrobatics are perfectly suited to the genre, which he'd carry into his adventure spectacles. Today, Fairbanks remains one of the better-known silent film stars, but mostly for his swashbucklers. Yet, he should be recognized as an early American screen comedian alongside Sennett, Arbuckle, Chaplin, Keaton and Lloyd, as well, even though his films aren't slapstick and he couldn't be considered a clown of the same order. Like some of the films of Sennett, Chaplin and Keaton especially, 'Wild and Woolly' is, however, a comedy that in reflecting itself finds much of its humour.

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