The Yankee Way

19171917
50m

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Dick Mason is arrested for defending a girl's honor in a Chicago restaurant brawl, and his father sends him to Lithuania where his family owns a share in a cattle concession. By chance, the ... Read allDick Mason is arrested for defending a girl's honor in a Chicago restaurant brawl, and his father sends him to Lithuania where his family owns a share in a cattle concession. By chance, the girl from the restaurant is also bound for the Balkans. While on board, Dick undertakes to... Read allDick Mason is arrested for defending a girl's honor in a Chicago restaurant brawl, and his father sends him to Lithuania where his family owns a share in a cattle concession. By chance, the girl from the restaurant is also bound for the Balkans. While on board, Dick undertakes to renew his acquaintance with this attractive foreigner, but encounters considerable resist... Read all

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Director
- Richard Stanton
Writers
- Edward Sedgwick(story)
- Ralph Spence(story)
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Enid Markey, Fritz von Hardenberg, and George Walsh in The Yankee Way (1917)

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George Walsh

Dick Mason

Enid Markey

Princess Alexia

Joseph J. Dowling

Colonel Mason
(as Joe Dowling)

Charles Edler

'Coyote' Jones
(as Charles Elder)

James O'Shea

James O'Malley

Edward Sedgwick

Robert Gillette
(as Ed Sedgwick)

Fritz von Hardenberg

Baron Maravitch
(as Count Hardenberg)

Edward Cecil

Count Vortsky

Tom Wilson

George Washington Brown

Director
- Richard Stanton
Writers
- Edward Sedgwick(story)
- Ralph Spence(story)
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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission made a formal complaint against William Fox on Sept. 29, 1922, charging him with selling old releases as new and specifying the 1920 reissue of The Yankee Way, re-titled Sink or Swim, "tended to injure the reputation of exhibitors and cause them to lose the good will of the theatre going public."