The Knickerbocker Buckaroo

1919 film

  • May 18, 1919 (1919-05-18)
Running time
77 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguagesSilent
English intertitlesBudget$264,000

The Knickerbocker Buckaroo is a 1919 American silent Western/romantic comedy film directed by Albert Parker and starring Douglas Fairbanks, who also wrote (under the pseudonym Elton Thomas) and produced the film.[1] The Knickerbocker Buckaroo is now considered lost.[2][3]

Synopsis

Fairbanks plays a hedonistic New York City aristocrat who tries to change his selfish ways by heading to Sonora, Texas to carry out a campaign of altruism. Along the way, he is mistaken for a Mexican bandit and is pursued by a corrupt sheriff who is in pursuit of the bandit's hidden fortune.[1][4]

Production background

The Knickerbocker Buckaroo was Fairbanks' last film under his contract with Paramount Pictures. After this production, he worked exclusively at United Artists, a company he co-founded in 1919 with Mary Pickford, Charles Chaplin, and D. W. Griffith.

Cast

  • Douglas Fairbanks as Teddy Drake
  • Marjorie Daw as Rita Allison
  • William A. Wellman as Henry (Wellman's debut in the film industry)
  • Frank Campeau as Crooked Sheriff
  • Edythe Chapman as Teddy's Mother
  • Albert MacQuarrie as Manual Lopez
  • Ernest Butterworth

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Progressive Silent Film List: The Knickerbocker Buckaroo at silentera.com
  2. ^ Vance, Jeffrey (2008). Douglas Fairbanks. University of California Press. p. 57. ISBN 978-0520256675. Retrieved March 25, 2013.
  3. ^ The Knickerbocker Buckaroo at TheGreatStars.com; Lost Films Wanted(Wayback Machine)
  4. ^ Thompson, Frank. Lost Films: Important Movies That Disappeared, pages 86-89. Citadel Press, 1996. ISBN 0-8065-1604-6

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