Broncho Billy's Christmas Dinner
About Broncho Billy's Christmas Dinner
At Christmas a young woman is driving to her parents when drunk cowboys spook the horses. The wagon bolts. Broncho Billy stops it. She asks him to dinner. She is the sheriff's daughter. Gilbert M. Anderson plays Billy and directed the Essanay short.
Cast & crew
More about Broncho Billy's Christmas Dinner
Anderson also wrote it. Released December 23, 1911. Edna Fisher plays the young woman. Arthur Mackley, Julia Mackley, Willis Elder, and Brinsley Shaw are on the catalog cast.
Themes
Preservation
A print survives.
Notes
- The invitation comes before she tells him whose daughter she is.
- Fisher is the woman in the wagon.
- Anderson is Billy, the director, and the writer.
- No minute count is on the record used here.
Scenes
- Billy stops the bolted wagon.
- She asks him in, and the house is the sheriff's.
