Wild and Woolly
AKA {Wild and Wooly}
(1917) American
B&W : Five reels
Produced (directed) by John Emerson

Cast: Douglas Fairbanks [Jeff Hillington], Eileen Percy [Nell Larabee], Sam de Grasse [Steve Shelby, a grafting Indian agent], Calvert Carter [Tom Larabee, the hotel proprietor and Nell’s father], Charles Stevens [Pedro, the hotel clerk], Walter Bytell [Collis J. Hillington, Jeff’s father], Joseph Singleton [Judson, the Hillington butler], Tom Wilson [Casey, the engineer], Forest Seabury [banker], J.W. Jones [lawyer], Ruth Allen, Ed Burns (Edmund Burns), James Wharton James, Bull Montana [bartender]

Douglas Fairbanks Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Artcraft Pictures Corporation. / Produced by Douglas Fairbanks. Photoplay (scenario) by Anita Loos, from a story by Horace P. Carpenter. Technical direction by Eric von Stroheim (Erich von Stroheim) and Wilfred Buckland. Assistant director Billy Shay. Photography (cinematography) by Victor Fleming + [Harry Thorpe and Glen MacWilliams]. Edited by Billy Shay. / © 16 June 1917 by Artcraft Pictures Corporation [LP10954]. Released 24 June 1917. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / The second production of Fairbanks’ company. Working title: A Regular Guy. The production was shot at the Lasky studio in southern California, and on-location in Burbank, California, and New York, New York. Percy’s film debut. AFI-F1 n. F1.4982 contains a number errors in actor and character names.

Comedy-Drama: Western.

Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.4982.

Survival Status: Prints exist in the Museum of Modern Art film archive, and in the Film Preservation Associates film collection (Blackhawk Films collection) [16mm positives].

Keywords: Animals: Horses - Books: Novels (Western), Poetry - Chewing gum - Crime: Fencing (Stolen goods), Graft, Theft - Deception - Domestics: Butlers, Maids - Letters - Meetings - Mexicans (Abroad) - Native Americans - Railroads - Safes - Sculpture: Bronze - Street scenes - Theaters (Motion picture) - Tobacco: Cigarettes, Cigars - Transportation: Automobiles, Trains (Train stations), Wagons - USA: Arizona, California (Burbank), New York (New York: Grand Central Station) - Weapons: Guns

Listing updated: 29 November 2007.

References: Film credits, film viewing : AFI-F1 n. F1.4982; Bardèche-History p. 115; Everson-American pp. 8, 86l, 369; Limbacher-Feature p. 276 : ClasIm-240 p. 45 : Website-NFPF.

Home Video: DVD.