A Man Four-Square
{{short description|1926 film}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = A Man Four-Square
| image =
| caption =
| director = Roy William Neill
| producer = William Fox
| writer = Charles Darnton
William MacLeod Raine (novel)
John Stone
| starring = Buck Jones
Marion Harlan
Harry Woods
| cinematography = Reginald Lyons
| studio = Fox Film
| distributor = Fox Film
| released = {{Film date|1926|05|09}}
| runtime = 50 minutes
| country = United States
| language = Silent (English intertitles)
}}
A Man Four-Square is a lost 1926 American silent Western film directed by Roy William Neill and starring Buck Jones, Marion Harlan, and Harry Woods.Solomon p. 377
Plot
As described in a film magazine review,{{cite journal |last= |first= |title=A Man Four-Square |journal=The Film Daily |volume=36 |issue=56 |date=June 6, 1926 |page=14 |url=https://archive.org/details/filmdaily3536newy/page/1618/mode/1up |publisher=Wid's Films and Film Folks, Inc. |location=New York City |accessdate=1 November 2023}} {{Source-attribution}} Craig Norton ends his vacation in New York early to return and straighten out matters at his ranch in the West. His neighbor Wallace Roberts accuses his men of rustling his cattle. Craig defends his foreman Jim Clanton against the accusations of Ben Taylor, foreman at the Roberts ranch. Roberts and Taylor plot to capture Craig and Clanton, who are hiding in a mountain cabin while Clanton nurses a broken ankle. Bertie Roberts, daughter of Wallace but in love with Craig, rides out to the cabin and warns the two that they have been located. Craig stands his ground when the fight comes, and Roberts discharges Taylor for firing the shack and endangering the young woman's life. Taylor later convinces Clanton to "get" Craig because he has taken his girl, but the scheme falls through. When Taylor dies the death of the rustler, Clanton makes up with Craig, and Craig and Bertie find happiness together.
Cast
- Buck Jones as Craig Norton
- Marion Harlan as Polly
- Harry Woods as Ben Taylor
- W.E. Lawrence as Jim Clanton
- Jay Hunt as Polly's Father
- Sidney Bracey as Homer Webb
- Florence Gilbert as Bertie Roberts
- Frank Beal as Wallace Roberts
Preservation
With no prints of A Man Four-Square located in any film archives, it is a lost film.{{cite book | chapter-url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/7,200_Lost_U.S._Silent_Feature_Films_(1912-29)_(2021-02-04)/M | title=7,200 Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films (1912-29) | chapter=M }}
References
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Bibliography
- Solomon, Aubrey. The Fox Film Corporation, 1915-1935: A History and Filmography. McFarland, 2011.
External links
- {{IMDb title|0017106}}
{{Roy William Neill}}
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Category:1926 Western (genre) films
Category:Films directed by Roy William Neill
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:Silent American Western (genre) films
Category:1920s English-language films
Category:English-language Western (genre) films
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