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Frame enlargement: Silent Era image collection.
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3 Bad Men
Also known as [The World of Promise] : {Three Bad Men}
(1926) United States of America
B&W : Nine reels / 8710 feet
Directed by John Ford
Cast: George O’Brien [Dan O’Malley], Olive Borden [Lee Carlton], Lou-Tellegen [Sheriff Layne Hunter], Tom Santschi [‘Bull’ Stanley], J. Farrell MacDonald [Mike Costigan], Frank Campeau [‘Spade’ Allen], Priscilla Bonner [Millie Stanley], Otis Harlan [Zach Little], Phyllis Haver [Lily], Georgie Harris [Joe Minsk], Alec Francis (Alec B. Francis) [Reverend Calvin Benson], Jay Hunt [Nat Lucas, the old prospector]; Walter Perry [Pat Monahan], George Irving [General Neville], Grace Gordon [Millie’s friend], Vester Pegg, Bud Osborne
Fox Film Corporation production; distributed by Fox Film Corporation [John Ford Production]. / Executive producer, William Fox. Scenario by John Stone + [John Ford], from the adaption by John Stone of the novel Over the Border by Herman Whitaker. Assistant director, Edward O’Fearna. Photographed (cinematography) by George Schneiderman. Titles (intertitles written) by Ralph Spence and Malcolm Stuart Boylan. Presented by William Fox. / © 22 August 1926 by Fox Film Corporation [LP23044]. Trade premiere, 13 August 1926. Released 28 August 1926. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Ford’s last silent western. Location photography was taken in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and in the Mojave Desert, California. The film’s length was cut after its premiere. The novel was subsequently filmed as Not Exactly Gentlemen (1931).
Drama: Western.
Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F2 n. F2.5652.
Survival status: Print exists.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Crime: Theft - Criminals: Horse thieves, Outlaws - Land rushes - Law: Enforcement: Police: Sheriffs - Mine claims - Native Americans: Dakota tribe - United States: Wyoming (Jackson Hole)
Listing updated: 11 April 2024.
References: Film credits, film viewing : AFI-F2 n. F2.5652; Everson-American pp. 250, 259; FilmYearBook-1926 p. 56; Gallagher-Ford pp. 32-34, 41, 260, 267, 498; Limbacher-Feature p. 249; Sinclair-Ford pp. 40-42, 237; Sweeney-Coming p. 101 : ClasIm-221 p. 53 : Website-AFI.
Home video: Blu-ray Disc, DVD.
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