In the Days of Buffalo Bill
In the Days of Buffalo Bill | |
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Directed by | Edward Laemmle |
Written by | Robert Dillon |
Produced by | Carl Laemmle |
Starring | Art Acord Duke R. Lee |
Cinematography | Herbert Kirkpatrick Howard Oswald |
Distributed by | Universal Film Manufacturing Co. |
Release date |
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Running time | 18 episodes |
Country | United States |
Languages | Silent English intertitles |
In the Days of Buffalo Billis a 1922 AmericansilentWesternfilm serialdirected byEdward Laemmle.The film, which consisted of 18 episodes, is currently classified aslost.[1]
Cast
[edit]- Art Acordas Art Taylor
- Duke R. LeeasBuffalo Bill Cody
- George A. Williamsas Calvert Carter
- Jay Morleyas Lambert Ashley
- Otto Nelson as Alden Carter
- Pat Harmonas Gaspard
- Jim Coreyas Quantrell
- Burton Law asAllen Pinkerton(as Burton C. Law)
- William De VaullasEdwin M. Stanton(as William P. Devaull)
- Joel DayasAbraham Lincoln[a]
- J. Herbert FrankasAbraham Lincoln[a]
- Clark Comstockas Thomas C. Durant
- Charles Colby asWilliam H. Seward
- Joseph HazeltonasGideon Welles(as Joe Hazleton)
- John W. Morris as Gen.U. S. Grant[a]
- Lafe McKeeas Gen.Robert E. Lee(as Lafayette McKee)
- G.B. Philips as Montgomery Blair
- Tex Driscoll as Gen.U.S. Grant[a](as John W. Morris)
- Harry MyersasAndrew Johnson(as Henry Myers)
- Ruth Royceas Aimee Lenard
- Chief Lightheart asSitting Bull
- William Knight as Jack Casement
- Elsie Greeson as Louise Frederici
- Buck Connorsas Hank Tabor
- Millard K. Wilsonas Tim O'Mara (as M.K. Wilson)
- William F. Moran asJohn Wilkes Booth(as William Moran)
- Silver Tip Baker as Gen.Grenville M. Dodge(as Silvertip Baker)
- Charles Newtonas Maj. North
- Alfred Hollingsworth as Chief Justice Chase
- Lester Cuneo
- Marion Feducha as Andrew Johnson as a boy
- Helen Farnum (uncredited)
- Joe Miller (uncredited)
- Dorothy Wood (uncredited)
Litigation over name "Buffalo Bill"
[edit]The corporation founded byWilliam F. Cody,the actual Buffalo Bill, and two partners in 1913, which made a film of his wild west exploits,The Adventures of Buffalo Bill(1917), brought a suit in federal court in Colorado seeking an injunction to prevent the 1922 film serial from using the name "Buffalo Bill" and his likeness in any advertising.[2]Applying the law of unfair competition, the court dismissed the suit noting that the name, which at best had only a common lawtrademark,had acquired a secondary meaning regarding the American West which had lost its exclusivity from being used in several plays without challenge, and that the theater-going public could readily distinguish between the films.[3]
Chapter titles
[edit]- Bonds of Steel
- In the Enemy's Hands
- The Spy
- The Sword of Grant and Lee
- The Man of the Ages
- Prisoners of the Sioux
- Shackles of Fate
- The Last Shot
- From Tailor to President
- Empire Builders
- Perils of the Plains
- The Hand of Justice
- Trails of Peril
- The Scarlet Doom
- Men of Steel
- The Brink of Eternity
- A Race to the Finish
- Driving the Golden Spike
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- Notes
- Citations
- ^"Progressive Silent Film List:In the Days of Buffalo Bill".silentera.com.RetrievedOctober 20,2009.
- ^Col. W.F. Cody Historical Picture Co. v. Colonial Amusement Co.,284 F. 873 (D. Colo. 1922).
- ^"Right to Use Name" Buffalo Bill "to Advertise Motion Picture Not Exclusive".Mississippi Law Review.1(5). University of Mississippi: Blackstone Law Club: 94. April 1923.RetrievedJanuary 10,2020.
External links
[edit]- 1922 films
- 1922 lost films
- 1922 Western (genre) films
- American black-and-white films
- American silent serial films
- Films directed by Edward Laemmle
- Cultural depictions of Buffalo Bill
- Lost American Western (genre) films
- Cultural depictions of Ulysses S. Grant
- Cultural depictions of John Wilkes Booth
- Cultural depictions of Sitting Bull
- Cultural depictions of Andrew Johnson
- Films about Robert E. Lee
- Cultural depictions of Abraham Lincoln
- Silent American Western (genre) films
- Universal Pictures film serials
- 1920s American films
- 1920s English-language films
- English-language Western (genre) films