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Bucking Broadway is a american film of genre Romance directed by John Ford released in USA on 24 december 1917 with Harry Carey
Bucking Broadway (1917)
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Add to a movie listBucking Broadway is a 1917 American western film directed by John Ford, probably his sixth feature film. Long thought to be lost, along with about 60 of Ford's 70 silent films, it was found in 2002 in the archives of the CNC (the French National Center for Cinematography). It was subsequently restored and digitized and is available on the website of Europa Film Tresures under the title A l'Assaut du boulevard.
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As described in a film magazine, Cheyenne Harry (Carey), one of the cowboys on a ranch in Wyoming, falls in love with Helen (Malone), his boss's daughter. She decides to elope to the city with Captain Thornton (Pegg), a wealthy visitor to the ranch from New York. Cheyenne and Helen's father (Wells) are downhearted. Cheyenne, devastated by the loss of his fiance, decides to go to the city to rescue her, and finds Thorton giving a dinner party in a hotel about to announce his engagement to Helen. As the dinner progresses Helen discovers the true nature of Thornton and endeavors to escape from him. Cheyenne comes to her rescue and, with the assistance of some cowboys, clean up the place, leaving Cheyenne and Helen reunited.Actors
Harry Carey
(Cheyenne Harry)
Molly Malone
(Helen Clayton)
L. M. Wells
(Ben Clayton)
Vester Pegg
(Eugene Thornton)
William Steele
(Buck Hoover)
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