Hands Up!
About Hands Up!
Confederate spy Jack (Raymond Griffith) tries to keep a Union gold mine, found for Abraham Lincoln (George A. Billings) by Allan Pinkerton, from feeding the Union army. His attempt to blow the mine only opens a richer vein. Caught and about to hang, he is cut down by the two daughters of mine owner Silas Woodstock (Mack Swain). He pulls two guns on the crowd, then hears that the war is over and sets off for Salt Lake City intending to marry both sisters, on the model of Brigham Young.
Cast & crew
More about Hands Up!
Clarence G. Badger directed. Monte Brice and Lloyd Corrigan wrote the script from a story by Reggie Morris. Jesse L. Lasky and Adolph Zukor produced it for Paramount. The release date on the filmography is January 14, 1926.
Themes
Background
The comedy drops Jack into a Civil War plot and then into named figures: Lincoln, Brigham Young, and Sitting Bull.
Preservation
In 2005 the Library of Congress placed it on the National Film Registry. A print circulates from that preservation interest, and a file is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- Noble Johnson plays Sitting Bull. Charles K. French plays Brigham Young. Montagu Love is Capt. Edward Logan.
- Virginia Lee Corbin plays Alice Woodstock and Marian Nixon plays Mae, the daughter Jack prefers.
- Jim Blackwell has an uncredited part as a servant who already knows Jack.
- Wikidata's duration is 60 minutes; the Wikipedia filmography lists 70.
Scenes
- Jack's blast at the mine uncovers a richer vein of gold.
- Arrows thump into the stagecoach and he writes them off as bee stings.
- With the war over, he holds two guns on the gang and leaves for Salt Lake City.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Hands Up! (1926).webm)
