Bucking Broadway (1917)

Directed by John Ford. With Harry Carey, Molly Malone, L.M. Wells, Vester Pegg. A ranch foreman battles a rich stockbroker for the affections of a beautiful young woman.

Bucking Broadway is a 1917 American silent 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).

A ranch foreman battles a rich stockbroker for the affections of a beautiful young woman. Cast Harry Carey ... Cheyenne Harry Molly Malone ... Helen Clayton ...

Cast Harry Carey (Cheyenne Harry), Molly Malone (Helen Clayton), L.M. Wells (Helen’s father Ben Clayton), Vester Pegg (Eugene Thornton), William Steele (Foreman Buck Hoover) Production Universal Film Manufacturing. Co. Producer Harry Carey Story George Hively Photography John W.

Bucking Broadway was John Ford's eighth feature film. Harry Carey, who starred in most of Ford's earliest productions, is here cast as cowpuncher Cheyenne Harry, who has just saved up enough money to marry the boss' daughter. Alas, the girl has already been promised in marriage to a wealthy city-slicker horse trader. Philosophical about his disappointment, Harry offers the girl a little wooden heart as a wedding present, telling her that if she's ever in trouble, to mail the heart back to him and he'll come a-galloping to the rescue. Upon moving back to New York with her new husband, the heroine learns that a predatory female intends to take her hubby for every penny he has. She promptly sends Cheyenne the little wooden heart, and within what seems like minutes Cheyenne and his saddle pals converge upon the Big Apple. Through sheer brute force, our hero and his chums make short work of the temptress and her henchmen and also manage to expose the girl's husband as a fraud and a cheat. Though the film was once thought lost, a copy exists in a French film archive. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Synopis and discussion of the 1917 film Bucking Broadway.

Overview of Bucking Broadway, 1917, directed by Jack Ford, with Harry Carey, Molly Malone, L. M. Wells, at Turner Classic Movies

On a ranch in Wyoming, 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.

On a ranch in Wyoming, 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.