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The Fighting Coward
(1924) American
B&W : Seven reels / 6501 feet
Directed by James Cruze

Cast: Ernest Torrence [General Orlando Jackson], Mary Astor [Lucy], Noah Beery (Sr.) [Captain Blackie], Cullen Landis [Tom Rumford], Phyllis Haver [Elvira], G. Raymond Nye [Major Patterson], Richard R. Neill (Richard Neill) [Joe Patterson], Carmen Phillips [Mexico, an octoroon], Bruce Covington [General Rumford], Helen Dunbar [Mrs. Rumford], Frank Jonasson [Rumbo], Ray Walker, Richard Arlen

Famous Players-Lasky Corporation production; distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation. / Produced by James Cruze. Scenario by Walter Woods, from the play The Magnolia by Booth Tarkington. Cinematography by Karl Brown. Presented by Adolph Zukor and Jesse L. Lasky. / © 1 April 1924 by Famous Players-Lasky Corporation [LP20039]. Premiered 16 March 1924 in New York, New York. Released 30 March 1924. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / The play was subsequently filmed as River of Romance (1929).

Comedy-Drama.

Survival Status: Print exists [16mm Kodascope reduction positive].

Keywords: Cowardice - Duels

Listing updated: 19 August 2009.

References: Parish-Glamour p. 54; Limbacher-Feature p. 79; LoC-MoPic-2 p. 250 : ClasIm-225 p. 51; ClasIm-226 p. 42; ClasIm-240 p. 43; ClasIm-302 p. 10, 12 : Website-AFI; Website-IMDb.

Home video: VHS.