Hoodman Blind

{{Infobox film

| name = Hoodman Blind

| image = Hoodman Blind (1923) - 1.jpg

| caption = Trade advertisement

| director = John Ford

| producer =

| writer = Charles Kenyon

| based_on = {{basedon|Hoodman Blind|Wilson Barrett and Henry Arthur Jones}}

| starring = David Butler
Gladys Hulette

| cinematography = George Schneiderman

| editing =

| distributor = Fox Film Corporation

| released = {{film date|1923|12|20}}

| runtime = 60 minutes

| country = United States

| language = Silent (English intertitles)

}}

Hoodman Blind is a 1923 American silent drama film directed by John Ford.{{cite web |url=http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.6268/default.html |title=Hoodman Blind |access-date=January 9, 2014 |work=American Silent Feature Film Survival Database}}{{cite web |url=http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/H/HoodmanBlind1923.html |title=Progressive Silent Film List: Hoodman Blind |access-date=March 4, 2008|work=Silent Era}} It is a remake of a 1913 film of the same name directed by James Gordon and a 1916 William Farnum Fox feature titled A Man of Sorrow and based on the play Hoodman Blind.

Plot

As described in a film magazine review,{{cite journal |last=Brumell |first=Marguarerite A. |title=Box Office Reviews: Hoodman Blind |journal=Exhibitors Trade Review |volume=15 |issue=10 |pages=27 |publisher=Exhibitors Review Publishing Corporation |date=26 January 1924 |location=New York |url=https://archive.org/details/exhibit00newy/page/n632/mode/1up |accessdate=29 July 2022}} {{Source-attribution}} John Linden, a victim of wanderlust, jumbles up his life and that of his two daughters. One is a daughter by marriage, the other an offspring of Jessie Walton, a young woman of the village. Noting the resemblance of the two, unscrupulous Mark Lezzard, the sea town's only lawyer, arouses the jealousy of the first daughter's husband Jack Yeulette, the skipper of a fishing smack, hoping to gain her for himself and thereby obtain control over the money John provides for her on a regular basis. After much havoc, happiness is the lot of everyone except Lezzard, whom the crowd "fixes" when they learn of what a wretch he is.

Cast

{{Cast listing|

David Butler as Jack Yeulette
Gladys Hulette as Nancy Yeulette / Jessie Walton
Regina Connelly as Jessie Walton (the first)
Frank Campeau as Mark Lezzard
Marc McDermott as John Linden
Trilby Clark as Mrs. John Linden
Jack Walters as Bull Yeaman
Eddie Gribbon as Battling Brown

}}

Preservation

With no prints of Hoodman Blind located in any film archives,[http://lcweb2.loc.gov:8081/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.6268/default.html Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: Hoodman Blind] it is a lost film.