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Billy Jim

Billy Jim
Directed byFrank Borzage
Written byFrank Howard Clark
Jackson Gregory
Produced byAndrew J. Callaghan
StarringFred Stone
Marian Skinner
George Hernandez
Production
company
Fred Stone Productions
Distributed byRobertson-Cole Distributing Corporation
Release date
  • January 29, 1922 (1922-01-29)
Running time
51 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguagesSilent
English intertitles

Billy Jim is a 1922 American silent comedy western film directed by Frank Borzage and starring Fred Stone, Marian Skinner and George Hernandez.[1]

Plot

Billy Jim is a wealthy westerner posing as a happy-go-lucky cowboy. He boards a train and gets into an argument with a man. He meets a girl who berates him for his actions. However, he falls in love with her. Later, while drunk, he finds her bound to a chair in a cabin and after releasing her learns that she is traveling with her father to a resort. Billy Jim then robs some men playing a card game and hires a driver to take him to the girl's father's resort. He learns the resort is next to a mining camp, which the father also owns. The sheriff then arrives to arrest him for stealing money. It is revealed that he is a wealthy cattle owner. Billy Jim departs, but the girl follows to return his gun.

Cast

References

  1. ^ Munden p.61

Bibliography

  • Munden, Kenneth White. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press, 1997.