A Trick of Hearts
{{short description|1928 film}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = A Trick of Hearts
| image = Trick of Hearts lobby card.jpg
| caption = Lobby card
| director = B. Reeves Eason
| producer = Carl Laemmle
| writer = {{ubl|Arthur Statter|Tom Reed}}
| story = Henry Irving Dodge
| starring = Hoot Gibson
| cinematography = Harry Neumann
| editing = M.C. Dewar
| distributor = Universal Pictures
| released = {{Film date|1928|03|18}}
| runtime = 60 minutes
| country = United States
| language = {{ubl|Silent|English intertitles}}
}}
A Trick of Hearts is a lost{{Citation |last1=Eason |first1=Reeves |title=A Trick Of Hearts |date=1928 |url=http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.10003/default.html |access-date=2022-07-13 |last2=Gibson |first2=Hoot}}{{Cite web |title=Lost Film Files - Universal |url=http://www.silentsaregolden.com/arneuniversal.html |access-date=2022-07-13 |website=www.silentsaregolden.com}} 1928 American silent Western film directed by B. Reeves Eason and starring Hoot Gibson. It was produced and distributed by Universal Pictures.{{Cite web |title=A Trick of Hearts |url=https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/12834 |access-date=2022-07-13 |website=catalog.afi.com}}{{Cite web |title=Silent Era : Progressive Silent Film List |url=https://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/T/TrickOfHearts1928.html |access-date=2022-07-13 |website=www.silentera.com}}
Plot
Carrie Patience has been elected as the new town sheriff. In order to discredit the new sheriff, Ben Tully begins staging phony robberies while disguised as a woman. Black Jack kidnaps Ben's girlfriend, Connie Meade.{{Cite book |last=Ginibre |first=Jean-Louis |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7hgQRVaWL-gC |title=Ladies Or Gentlemen: A Pictorial History of Male Cross-dressing in the Movies |date=2005 |publisher=Filipacchi Publishing |isbn=978-1-933231-04-4 |pages=260 |language=en}}
Cast
- Hoot Gibson as Benjamin Franklin Tully
- Georgia Hale as Connie Meade
- Joe Rickson as Black Jack
- Rosa Gore as Sheriff Carrie Patience
- Howard Truesdale as Dad Tully
- Heinie Conklin as Blackface Comic
- George Ovey as Whiteface Comic
- Nora Cecil as The Mayor
- Dan Crimmins as The Ex Sheriff
- Grace Cunard as The Constable
See also
References
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External links
- {{IMDb title|id=0019492|title=}}
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Category:Lost American Western (genre) films
Category:Films directed by B. Reeves Eason
Category:Universal Pictures films
Category:1928 Western (genre) films
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:Silent American Western (genre) films
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