Trifling with Honor
{{short description|1923 film by Harry A. Pollard}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = Trifling with Honor
| image = Trifling with Honor (1923) - 1.jpg
| caption = Trade advertisement
| director = Harry A. Pollard
| producer = Carl Laemmle
| writer = Frank S. Beresford
Raymond L. Schrock (adaptation, scenario)
| based_on = Short story His Good Name by William Slavens McNutt appearing in July 1922 Collier's
| starring = Rockliffe Fellowes
Fritzi Ridgeway
| cinematography = Jack Brown
| editing =
| distributor = Universal Pictures
| released = {{Film date|1923|05|28}}
| runtime = 8 reels
| country = United States
| language = Silent (English intertitles)
}}
Trifling with Honor is a 1923 American silent crime drama film directed by Harry A. Pollard and starring Rockliffe Fellowes and Fritzi Ridgeway. It was produced and distributed by Universal Pictures under their Jewel banner. It was also known as His Good Name from the short story source material by William Slavens McNutt.[http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=12837 The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: Trifling with Honor][http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/T/TriflingWithHonor1923.html Progressive Silent Film List: Trifling with Honor] at silentera.com
Cast
{{Cast listing|
- Rockliffe Fellowes as Gas Pipe Kid / Bat Shugrue
- Fritzi Ridgeway as Ida Hunt
- Buddy Messinger as Jimmy Hunt
- Hayden Stevenson as Kelsey Lewis
- Emmett King as Judge Drury
- William Welsh as Warden
- Fred R. Stanton as Lute Clotz (credited as Frederick Stanton)
- William Robert Daly as The Kid's Father
- Jim Farley as Murray Jessop
- Sidney De Gray as Dud Adams
- John Hatton as Jimmy, 8 years old
- Mike Gaffner as Landlord
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Preservation
While Trifling with Honor is a lost film,[http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.10006/default.html The Library of Congress/FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Trifling with Honor] a trailer for this film survives at the Library of Congress.[trailer] Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress, p. 189, c.1978 by the American Film Institute
References
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External links
{{commons category|Trifling with Honor}}
- {{IMDb title|0014561|Trifling with Honor}}
{{Harry A. Pollard}}
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Category:American silent feature films
Category:Lost American crime drama films
Category:Films directed by Harry A. Pollard
Category:Universal Pictures films
Category:Films based on short fiction
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:1923 crime drama films
Category:Silent American crime drama films
Category:1920s English-language films
Category:English-language crime drama films
Category:Lost silent American films
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