Billy Jim
{{short description|1922 film}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = Billy Jim
| image = File:Billy Jim poster.jpg
| caption =
| director = Frank Borzage
| producer = Andrew J. Callaghan
| writer = Frank Howard Clark
Jackson Gregory
| starring =Fred Stone
Marian Skinner
George Hernandez
| cinematography =
| studio = Fred Stone Productions
| distributor = Robertson-Cole Distributing Corporation
| released = {{Film date|1922|01|29}}
| runtime = 51 minutes
| country = United States
| language = Silent
English intertitles
}}
Billy Jim is a 1922 American silent comedy western film directed by Frank Borzage and starring Fred Stone, Marian Skinner and George Hernandez.Munden p.61
Plot
Billy Jim is a wealthy westerner posing as a happy-go-lucky cowboy. He boards a train and gets into an argument with a man. He meets a girl who berates him for his actions. However, he falls in love with her. Later, while drunk, he finds her bound to a chair in a cabin and after releasing her learns that she is traveling with her father to a resort. Billy Jim then robs some men playing a card game and hires a driver to take him to the girl's father's resort. He learns the resort is next to a mining camp, which the father also owns. The sheriff then arrives to arrest him for stealing money. It is revealed that he is a wealthy cattle owner. Billy Jim departs, but the girl follows to return his gun.
Cast
- Fred Stone as Billy Jim
- Millicent Fisher as Marsha Dunforth
- George Hernandez as Dudley Dunforth
- Billy Bletcher as Jimmy
- Marian Skinner as Mrs. Dunforth
- Frank Thorne as Roy Forsythe
References
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Bibliography
- Munden, Kenneth White. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press, 1997.
External links
- {{IMDb title|0012941}}
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Category:1922 Western (genre) films
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:Films directed by Frank Borzage
Category:Film Booking Offices of America films
Category:Silent American Western (genre) films
Category:1920s English-language films
Category:American silent feature films
Category:English-language Western (genre) films
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