Fulta Fisher's Boarding House

1922 ComedyDrama 12 minutes Directed by Frank Capra

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About Fulta Fisher's Boarding House

Fultah Fisher keeps a boarding house for sailors in port. Anne of Austria has had many of them and is now with Salem Hardieker, a Boston tough. She looks at a new man, Hans the Dane. He refuses her because she is Salem's. She starts a fight, and a sailor is killed.

Cast & crew

More about Fulta Fisher's Boarding House

Frank Capra's first film as director. He wrote it with Walter Montague and also edited. Montague produced. It is taken from Rudyard Kipling's poem The Ballad of Fisher's Boarding-House. Pathé Exchange released it on April 2, 1922. The shoot was in San Francisco.

Themes

  • A sailors' boarding house
  • A woman treated as one man's property
  • A refusal and a fight
  • Anne of Austria
  • Salem Hardieker
  • Hans
  • sailors
  • Capra

Notes

  • Mildred Owens plays Anne. Ethan Allen plays Salem Hardieker. Olaf Skavlan plays Hans.
  • The Kipling poem and some prints spell the name Fultah. This title uses Fulta.

Scenes

  • Hans turns Anne down, and the fight she starts kills a sailor.

Influenced by

  • Rudyard Kipling's The Ballad of Fisher's Boarding-House

Also available

  • Internet Archive (fultahfishersboardinghouse)
  • Wikimedia Commons (Fultah Fisher's Boarding House.webm)

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