Beauty and the Bad Man explained

Beauty and the Bad Man
Starring:Mabel Ballin
Forrest Stanley
Russell Simpson
Studio:Peninsula Studios
Distributor:Producers Distributing Corporation
Runtime:60 minutes
Country:United States
Language:Silent
English intertitles

Beauty and the Bad Man is a lost 1925 American silent Western film directed by William Worthington and starring Mabel Ballin, Forrest Stanley, and Russell Simpson.[1] [2]

Plot

As described in a film magazine review,[3] Cassie, an orphan with vocal abilities, enters the mining town after fleeing from her worthless husband of one day. She meets the gambler, who likes her and stakes her with the money he won after breaking the bank. She uses the money to cultivate her voice, and then returns to the mining town famous. Her old husband wants her to return, and when she refuses he fires a gun, but he is late and is winged by a friend of the gambler. Cassie then realizes her love for the gambler.

Preservation

With no prints of Beauty and the Bad Man located in any film archives,[4] it is a lost film.

External links

Notes and References

  1. Book: Munden, Kenneth White. 1997. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press. 1971. 46. 0520209699.
  2. http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/B/BeautyAndTheBadMan1925.html Progressive Silent Film List: Beauty and the Bad Man
  3. New Pictures: Beauty and the Bad Man. Exhibitors Herald. 21. 9. 129. May 23, 1925. November 18, 2022.
  4. https://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.3654/default.html Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: Beauty and the Bad Man