Cappy Ricks

{{short description|1921 film}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2020}}

{{Infobox film

| name = Cappy Ricks

| image = Cappy Ricks (1921) - 2.jpg

| alt =

| caption = Film still

| director = Tom Forman

| producer = Adolph Zukor

| screenplay = Peter B. Kyne
Albert S. Le Vino
Edward E. Rose
Waldemar Young

| starring = Thomas Meighan
Charles S. Abbe
Agnes Ayres
Hugh Cameron
John St. Polis
Paul Everton
Eugenie Woodward

| music =

| cinematography = Harry Perry

| editing =

| studio = Famous Players–Lasky Corporation

| distributor = Paramount Pictures

| released = {{Film date|1921|8|21}}

| runtime = 60 minutes

| country = United States

| language = Silent (English intertitles)

| budget =

| gross =

}}

Cappy Ricks is a 1921 American silent adventure film directed by Tom Forman and written by Peter B. Kyne, Albert S. Le Vino, Edward E. Rose, and Waldemar Young. The film stars Thomas Meighan, Charles S. Abbe, Agnes Ayres, Hugh Cameron, John St. Polis, Paul Everton and Eugenie Woodward. The film was released on August 21, 1921, by Paramount Pictures.{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/86595/Cappy-Ricks/overview|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150130003420/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/86595/Cappy-Ricks/overview|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 30, 2015|department=Movies & TV Dept.|work=The New York Times|author=Janiss Garza|date=2015|title=Cappy-Ricks - Trailer - Cast - Showtimes - NYTimes.com|accessdate=January 26, 2015}}{{cite web|url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=1&Movie=3202|title=Cappy Ricks|work=afi.com|accessdate=January 26, 2015}}

On Broadway in the 1919 season, the play version starred William Courtenay and Tom Wise.

Plot

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Cast

Production

The wrecked ship scenes were filmed off the coast of Boston.{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/camera04unse/page/n111/mode/2up |title=Camera! |date= |publisher=Raymond Cannon |others= |location=Los Angeles |publication-date=May 21, 1921 |pages=9 |language=en}}

Survival status

It is not known whether Cappy Ricks currently survives.[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/C/CappyRicks1921.html Progressive Silent Film List: Cappy Ricks] at silentera.com The Library of Congress database of American silent films lists an incomplete print of the film as preserved in the UCLA Film and Television Archive.{{Cite web |date=2017-08-10 |title=The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Cappy Ricks |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170810131318/http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.3123/default.html |access-date=2025-04-09 |website=web.archive.org}}

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