Bucking Broadway
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Bucking Broadway is a 1917
1917 in film
The year 1917 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*Foundation of Universum Film AG , as a propaganda film company, in Berlin.*Technicolor System 1, a two-color process, is introduced...

 film by John Ford
John Ford
John Ford was an American film director. He was famous for both his westerns such as Stagecoach, The Searchers, and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, and adaptations of such classic 20th-century American novels as The Grapes of Wrath...

, probably his sixth feature film. Long thought to be lost
Lost film
A lost film is a feature film or short film that is no longer known to exist in studio archives, private collections or public archives such as the Library of Congress, where at least one copy of all American films are deposited and catalogued for copyright reasons...

, 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. on the website of Europe Film Tresures.

Plot

On a ranch in Wyoming
Wyoming
Wyoming is a state in the mountain region of the Western United States. The western two thirds of the state is covered mostly with the mountain ranges and rangelands in the foothills of the Eastern Rocky Mountains, while the eastern third of the state is high elevation prairie known as the High...

, one of the cowboys, Cheyenne Harry (Harry Carey), falls in love with his boss's daughter. But she decides to elope to the city with Captain Thornton, a wealthy visitor to the ranch. She quickly discovers that life in the city is not what she expected. Cheyenne, devastated by the loss of his fiancée, decides to go to the city to find her, and in the end rescues her from the grips of Captain Thornton and from the extravagant and decadent way of life in the city.

Cast

  • Harry Carey - Cheyenne Harry
  • Molly Malone
    Molly Malone (actor)
    Molly Malone was an American actress of the silent era. She appeared in 86 films between 1916 and 1929. Her father Lewis Malone, a metallurgist for mining companies. Her mother was Violet St...

     - Helen
  • L. M. Wells
    L. M. Wells
    L. M. Wells was an American actor of the silent era. He appeared in 51 films between 1912 and 1922.He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio.-Selected filmography:* Vanishing Trails * Runnin' Straight...

     - Her Father
  • Vester Pegg
    Vester Pegg
    Vester Pegg was an American actor of the silent era. He appeared in 140 films between 1912 and 1941.He was born in Appleton City, Missouri and died in Los Angeles, California.-Selected filmography:...

     - Thornton
  • William Steele
    William Steele (actor)
    William Anton Gittinger , best known as William Steele, was an American actor of small roles in Westerns, particularly those of John Ford....

     - Foreman (as William Gettinger)
  • Gertrude Astor
    Gertrude Astor
    Gertrude Astor was an American motion picture character actress, who began her career playing trombone on a riverboat.-Career:...

     - Gladys (uncredited)
  • Martha Mattox
    Martha Mattox
    Martha Mattox was an American silent film actor most notable for her role of Mammy Pleasant in the 1927 film The Cat and the Canary. She also played a role in Torrent...

     - Shocked Customer in Store (uncredited)

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