Bucking Broadway
About Bucking Broadway
On a Wyoming ranch, cowboy Cheyenne Harry loves the boss’s daughter Helen. She elopes to the city with Captain Thornton, a rich visitor. City life is not what she expected. Harry goes after her and takes her back from Thornton. Harry Carey plays Harry Henderson. Molly Malone plays Helen. Vester Pegg plays Thornton.
Cast & crew
More about Bucking Broadway
John Ford directed, probably his sixth feature. George Hively wrote it. Carey produced and stars. Universal released it on 24 December 1917. The restored version runs 53 minutes. L. M. Wells is Helen’s father. William Steele, credited as William Gettinger, is the foreman. Gertrude Astor is an uncredited Gladys. Thought lost with most of Ford’s silents, it was found in 2002 at the CNC in France, then restored and digitized. It is an extra on the Criterion Blu-ray of Stagecoach.
Themes
Making
Ford, still Jack Ford on some paperwork of the period, uses Carey’s Cheyenne Harry as the man who will not leave the elopement in the city. The CNC print is what made the 2002 restoration possible.
Music
Silent, with English intertitles.
Preservation
Found in 2002 in the CNC archives in France. Restored and digitized. The restored cut runs 53 minutes.
Notes
- The story moves from the Wyoming ranch to the city and back, which is the “bucking Broadway” of the title.
- Martha Mattox is an uncredited shocked customer in a store.
- About 60 of Ford’s 70 silent films are still missing. This is one of the ones that came back.
- A Commons copy is filed as Bucking Broadway.
Scenes
- Helen leaves the ranch with Captain Thornton.
- Harry comes to the city and takes her out of Thornton’s hands.
Also available
- Criterion Blu-ray of Stagecoach (supplement)
- Wikimedia Commons (Bucking Broadway.webm)
