Hands Up! (1926 film)

{{Infobox film

| name = Hands Up!

| image = Hands up pamphlet-1926.jpg

| caption = Contemporary pamphlet for the film

| director = Clarence G. Badger

| producer = Jesse L. Lasky
Adolph Zukor

| writer = Monte Brice
Lloyd Corrigan

| story = Reggie Morris

| starring = Raymond Griffith
Virginia Lee Corbin
Charles K. French
Marian Nixon

| music =

| cinematography = H. Kinley Martin

| editing =

| distributor = Paramount Pictures

| released = {{Film date|1926|01|14}}

| runtime = 70 minutes

| country = United States

| language = Silent (English intertitles)

| budget =

| gross =

}}

Hands Up! is a 1926 American silent comedy film directed by Clarence Badger, co-written by Monte Brice and Lloyd Corrigan, and starring Raymond Griffith, one of the great silent movie comedians. The film features fictional incidents involving actual historical figures such as Abraham Lincoln, Brigham Young, and Sitting Bull.

Plot

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As described in a film magazine review,{{Citation |last=Campbell |first=William |author-link= |title=Pre-Release Review of Features: Hands Up! |journal=Motion Picture News |volume=33 |issue=3 |pages=300 |date=16 January 1926 |publisher=Motion Picture News, Inc. |location=New York City, New York |url=https://archive.org/details/motionpic33moti/page/n303/mode/1up |access-date=12 January 2023}} {{Source-attribution}} during the Civil War, Jack, an officer and spy for Confederate States Army, attempts to secure a Union gold mine that had been discovered by Allan Pinkerton for Abraham Lincoln, and keep a load of gold from reaching the Union Army. He tries to blow up the mine but exposes a richer vein of gold. He is caught and about to be hanged when he is saved by two daughters of the mine owner. Jack grabs two guns and successfully holds up the gang when word arrives that the war has been declared over. Jack then follows Brigham Young's example and starts for Salt Lake City so that he can marry both daughters. Along the way, while engaging in lovemaking with the young women, the stage coach is shot full of arrows, which he describes as "bee stings."

Cast

{{Cast listing|

George A. Billings as Abraham Lincoln
Virginia Lee Corbin as Alice Woodstock
Charles K. French as Brigham Young
Raymond Griffith as Jack, a Confederate Spy
Noble Johnson as Sitting Bull
Montagu Love as Capt. Edward Logan
Marian Nixon as Mae, the Girl He Loves
Mack Swain as Silas Woodstock
Jim Blackwell as Servant who knows Jack (uncredited)

}}

Preservation

In 2005, this film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".{{Cite web|title=Librarian of Congress Adds 25 Films to National Film Registry|url=https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-05-262/librarian-of-congress-adds-25-films-to-national-film-registry-2/2005-12-20/|website=Library of Congress|access-date=April 30, 2020}}{{Cite web|title=Complete National Film Registry Listing |url=https://www.loc.gov/programs/national-film-preservation-board/film-registry/complete-national-film-registry-listing/|website=Library of Congress|access-date=April 30, 2020}}

References

External links

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[https://www.loc.gov/static/programs/national-film-preservation-board/documents/hands_up.pdf Hands Up!] essay by Steve Massa on the National Film Registry web site
Hands Up! essay by Daniel Eagan in [https://books.google.com/books/about/America_s_Film_Legacy.html?id=deq3xI8OmCkCAmerica's Film Legacy: The Authoritative Guide to the Landmark Movies in the National Film Registry], A&C Black, 2010 {{ISBN|0826429777}}, pages 111-112
{{IMDb title|id=0016947|title=Hands Up!}}
[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/H/HandsUp1926.html Progressive Silent Film List: Hands Up!] at silentera.com