The Texas Bearcat
{{short description|1925 film}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = The Texas Bearcat
| image = Texas Bearcat lobby card.jpg
| caption = Lobby card
| director = B. Reeves Eason
| producer = Jesse J. Goldburg
| writer = George H. Plympton
| story = F. J. Rhetore
| starring = Bob Custer
Sally Rand
| cinematography = Jack Draper (billed as Lauren A. Draper)
| studio = Robertson-Cole Pictures Corporation
| distributor = Film Booking Offices of America (FBO)
| released = {{Film date|1925|05|31}}
| runtime = 5 reels
| country = United States
| language = Silent
English intertitles
}}
The Texas Bearcat is a 1925 American silent Western film directed by B. Reeves Eason and starring Bob Custer. It was distributed by Film Booking Offices of America.[https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/12593?sid=30d5d928-6ed5-4f07-babc-2bec2750a9c4&sr=2.973505&cp=1&pos=0 The AFI Catalog of Feature Films 1893-1993: The Texas Bearcat][http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/T/TexasBearcat1925.html Progressive Silent Film List: The Texas Bearcat] at silentera.comBlum, Daniel (1953), Pictorial History of the Silent Screen, Doubleday p. 274
Plot
Raised to believe he is the son of a half breed Dave aids Sethman in the struggle against Crawford interests which try to get control of surrounding ranches. After coming West with her father, Crawford, Jean is saved from a runaway by Dave. Later she
is saved by Dave when the unprincipled Murdock, Crawford’s agent, attempts to attack her. Sethman, to get even with Crawford,
plans to rustle the cattle. In the fight Crawford wounds Sethman, but Dave shoots Crawford in the hand. Sethman, dying, tells
that Dave was stolen from Crawford when a child. Then Dave is unhappy as ever until he finds that Jean is not his sister, being an adopted daughter of Crawford. With this knowledge he becomes her fiance.[https://archive.org/details/exhibitorsherald21unse/ Exhibitors Herald (May-Jun 1925), p53.1] at archive.org
Cast
- Bob Custer as Dave Sethman
- Sally Rand as Jean Crawford
- Harry von Meter as John Crawford
- Jack Richardson as Watson
- Carlton S. King as Sethman
- Lee Shumway as Murdock
Preservation
With no copies of The Texas Bearcat located in any film archives,[http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.9743/default.html The Library of Congress / FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: The Texas Bearcat] it is a lost film.
References
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External links
{{commons category|The Texas Bearcat}}
- {{IMDb title|0169305|The Texas Bearcat}}
{{B. Reeves Eason}}
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Category:Lost American Western (genre) films
Category:Film Booking Offices of America films
Category:1925 Western (genre) films
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:Silent American Western (genre) films
Category:Films directed by B. Reeves Eason
Category:Films with screenplays by George H. Plympton
Category:1920s English-language films
Category:English-language Western (genre) films
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