| Fultah Fisher's Boarding House | |
| Director: | Frank Capra |
| Producer: | Walter Montague |
| Editing: | Frank Capra |
| Studio: | Fireside Productions |
| Distributor: | Pathé Exchange |
| Runtime: | 12 minutes |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English intertitles |
| Budget: | $1,700 |
Fultah Fisher's Boarding House is a 1922 American silent film short and the first film directed by Frank Capra. Based on a poem by Rudyard Kipling, the film is about a prostitute living at a boarding house who provokes a fight that leads to the death of a sailor.
Fultah Fisher runs a boarding house catering to seamen passing through the port. A local girl known as Anne of Austria has had many lovers amongst the sailors, and is currently linked to Salem Hardieker, a tough Bostonian. When Anne is drawn to a new potential lover, Hans, he rejects her, knowing she's Salem's girl.
Frank Capra, on his first attempt at making a film, managed to write, cast, direct and edit the film all on his own. The film was shot in San Francisco.[1]