How Baxter Butted In
{{short description|1925 film}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = How Baxter Butted In
| image = How Baxter Butted In ad from Exhibitor's Trade Review (weekly, May 30, 1925 to August 29, 1925) (page 152 crop).jpg
| caption = Film advert
| director = William Beaudine
| producer =
| writer = Owen Davis
| starring = Dorothy Devore
| cinematography = David Abel
| editing = Warner Bros.
| distributor = Warner Bros.
| released = {{Film date|1925|7|25}}
| runtime = 70 minutes
| country = United States
| language = Silent (English intertitles)
}}
How Baxter Butted In is a 1925 American silent comedy film directed by William Beaudine.{{cite web |url=http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/H/HowBaxterButtedIn1925.html |title=Progressive Silent Film List: How Baxter Butted In |access-date=December 14, 2013 |work=silentera.com}}[http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/AbbrView.aspx?s=&Movie=9841 The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: How Baxter Butted In]
Plot
As described in a film magazine review,{{Citation |title=New Pictures: How Baxter Butted In |journal=Exhibitors Herald |volume=22 |issue=4 |pages=55 |date=18 July 1925 |publisher=Exhibitors Herald Company |location=Chicago, Illinois |url=https://archive.org/details/exhibitorsherald22unse/page/n438/mode/1up |access-date=14 June 2022}} {{Source-attribution}} Henry Baxter is bashful and fails to get ahead in the world because people do not understand him. That is, all but Beulah Dyer, whom he loves blindly. His hard luck increases when a widowed sister-in-law and her two children descend upon his household. He works days at the office and nights doing clerical work for a druggist until his health fails him. Walter Higgins, his office boss, has stolen Henry's idea of boosting newspaper circulation by giving valor banquets to heroes. When Henry recovers from his illness, he is invited to one and finds that his struggles are appreciated as real heroism. When his home catches fire, and spurred on by the desire to be the other sort of hero, Henry thrusts aside the firemen and rescues the children himself.
Cast
{{Cast listing|
- Dorothy Devore as Beulah Dyer
- Matt Moore as Henry Baxter
- Ward Crane as Walter Higgins
- Wilfred Lucas as R.S. Falk
- Adda Gleason as Emmy Baxter
- Turner Savage as Jimmy Baxter
- Virginia Marshall as Mary Baxter
- Otis Harlan as Amos Nichols
}}
Preservation
With no prints of How Baxter Butted In located in any film archives,[http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.6318/default.html The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: How Baxter Butted In] it is a lost film.
References
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External links
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- {{IMDb title|0015931}}
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Category:Silent American comedy films
Category:American silent feature films
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:Films directed by William Beaudine
Category:Lost American comedy films
Category:1920s English-language films
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