Ridin' Pretty
{{short description|1925 film}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = Ridin' Pretty
| image = Ridin' Pretty (1925) - 1.jpg
| caption = Trade advertisement
| director = Arthur Rosson
| producer =
| writer = Isadore Bernstein
George Hively
Raymond L. Schrock
| starring = William Desmond
Ann Forrest
Stanhope Wheatcroft
| cinematography = Jackson Rose
| studio = Universal Pictures
| distributor = Universal Pictures
| released = {{film date|1925|02|22}}
| runtime = 5 reels
| country = United States
| language = Silent
English intertitles
}}
Ridin' Pretty is a 1925 American silent Western film directed by Arthur Rosson and starring William Desmond, Ann Forrest, and Stanhope Wheatcroft.Munden, p. 652.[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/R/RidinPretty1925.html Progressive Silent Film List: Ridin' Pretty] at silentera.com
Plot
As described in a review in a film magazine,{{cite journal |last=Smith |first=Sumner |author-link= |title=Ridin' Pretty; William Desmond and Ann Forrest in Entertaining Universal Western |journal=The Moving Picture World |volume=72 |issue=3 |pages=267 |publisher=Chalmers Publishing Co. |location=New York City |date=17 January 1925 |url=https://archive.org/details/movingpicturewor72janf/page/n322/mode/1up |access-date=18 July 2021}} Arizona cowboy Sky Parker (Desmond) goes to San Francisco to claim an inheritance left him by his uncle. He takes five cowboys with him. The "boys" have a hectic time, among the adventures include a ride through the city on borrowed truck horses from a brewery, a stunt for which they are arrested. A cousin of Sky persuades Maize, a young woman, to assist him in getting the inheritance away from Sky, but she relents and runs away. Sky rides a motorcycle to catch and board her train, winds her consent to marriage, and throws out his cousin.
Cast
{{Cast listing|
- William Desmond as Sky Parker
- Ann Forrest as Maize
- Stanhope Wheatcroft as Miller
- Billy Sullivan as Stringbean
- Slim Cole as Big Bill
- Tex Young as Shorty
- William Gillis as Gloom
- Frank Rice as Barb Wire
}}
Preservation
A print of Ridin' Pretty is in the collection of EYE Film Institute Netherlands.[http://lcweb2.loc.gov:8081/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.2468/default.html Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: Ridin' Pretty]
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.