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Wild and woolly

Douglas Fairbanks came from Broadway to the movies in 1915 when high salaries were luring well-known stage actors to the new feature-length pictures. Although most of these performers failed to 'register' on camera and returned to New York, Fairbanks quickly became a supernova. His energetic, optimistic character, his ingratiating smile, his graceful, acrobatic stunts (he did his own), clever writing, and accomplished staging rapidly made Fairbanks one of the most admired stars in the world. He produced 3 films for Artcraft/Famous Players-Lasky Corp., including Wild and Woolly (1917), starring Fairbanks, Eileen Percy, and Calvert Carter. Fairbanks is an Easterner who moves to a Western town to fulfill his fantasy of becoming a Wild West tough guy.

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  • "Douglas Fairbanks came from Broadway to the movies in 1915 when high salaries were luring well-known stage actors to the new feature-length pictures. Although most of these performers failed to 'register' on camera and returned to New York, Fairbanks quickly became a supernova. His energetic, optimistic character, his ingratiating smile, his graceful, acrobatic stunts (he did his own), clever writing, and accomplished staging rapidly made Fairbanks one of the most admired stars in the world. He produced 3 films for Artcraft/Famous Players-Lasky Corp., including Wild and Woolly (1917), starring Fairbanks, Eileen Percy, and Calvert Carter. Fairbanks is an Easterner who moves to a Western town to fulfill his fantasy of becoming a Wild West tough guy."@en
  • "In Wild and Wooly, Douglas Fairbanks is a cowboy wanna-be from the East, who journeys to a Western town where the people seem to be from the Wild West of his imagination. ."
  • "Douglas Fairbanks Snr. stars as a young railway clerk, tired of his office job who dreams constantly of the romantic west. His dreams appear to be fulfilled when he is sent on company business to a small town in Arizona."@en
  • "A railroad magnate's son fills his weary hours by living in a fantasy world of the Old West. At last his father sends him to Arizona on business, where his dream world comes true."@en
  • "A young, millionaire's son heads West, hoping to find a West wild with train robbers, cowboys, shooting sprees and general lawlessness."@en
  • "Railroad magnate's son whose imagination is inflamed with the "Old West" is at last sent by his father to Arizona, where he performs as a cowboy superstar to halt train holdups."@en
  • "Railroad magnate's son, Douglas Fairbanks, fills his weary hours by living in a fantasy world of the old West. At last his father sends him to Arizona on business, where his dream world comes true."@en
  • "A rich young Easterner who has always wanted to live in "the Wild West" plans to move to a Western town."
  • "In Wild and Wooly, Douglas Fairbanks is a cowboy wanna-be from the East, who journeys to a Western town where the people seem to be from the Wild West of his imagination. In Sky High, Tom Mix is an immigration officer in Arizona who tries to stop a gang from smuggling Chinese labor over the border from Mexico."@en
  • "Douglas Fairbanks is an Easterner whose imagination is inflamed with the "Old West". Sent out west by his father to a tame western town, Doug performs as a cowboy superstar to halt train holdups."@en
  • "A fast-moving, witty spoof of westerns."
  • "Douglas Fairbanks is a cowboy wanna-be from the East, who journeys to a Western town where the people seem to be from the Wild West of his imagination. Director: John Emerson."@en
  • "Jeff Hillington, a New Yorker and heir to a railroad, loves the wild west. However he imagines it as it was in the 1880s. When he decides to take a trip to Bitter Creek, Arizona, his father arranges that everything will look like it did in 1880, but to protect everyone from accident, everybody packing a pistol will only carry blanks. The local Indians hear of the charade and attack the town with real bullets. It falls to Jeff to get from the saloon to his cache of arms through a hail of bullets, get arms back to the townfolk, and subdue the uprising. Does true love await his heroism?"
  • "Jeff Hillington, a New Yorker and heir to a railroad, loves the wild west. However he imagines it as it was in the 1880s. When he decides to take a trip to Bitter Creek, Arizona, his father arranges that everything will look like it did in 1880, but to protect everyone from accident, everybody packing a pistol will only carry blanks. The local Indians hear of the charade and attack the town with real bullets. It falls to Jeff to get from the saloon to his cache of arms through a hail of bullets, get arms back to the townfolk, and subdue the uprising. Does true love await his heroism?"@en

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  • "Feature films"
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  • "Western films"@en
  • "Western films"
  • "Action and adventure films"
  • "Drama"
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  • "Film adaptations"@en
  • "Comedy films"@en
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  • "Silent films"
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  • "Fiction"
  • "Westerns"@en
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  • "Wild and woolly (1917)"@en
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