Jubilo
About Jubilo
Jubilo, a hobo played by Will Rogers, sees a train robbery in Oklahoma and does not want the robbers or the sheriff to notice him. He takes a job on Judge Jim Hardy's farm for food and a bed, and he is drawn to the judge's daughter Rose. In town he recognizes Bert Rooker as the man who led the robbery. Rooker means to frame the judge. Jubilo stops him.
Cast & crew
More about Jubilo
Clarence G. Badger directed. Robert F. Hill wrote the screenplay from a story by Ben Ames Williams. Samuel Goldwyn produced it. Marcel Le Picard photographed it. Goldwyn Pictures released it on December 7, 1919. The running time used here is 50 minutes.
Themes
In film history
The National Film Registry added it in 2021.
Making
Goldwyn built the comedy on a Ben Ames Williams story and let Rogers carry it as a talking-title hobo who would rather not work.
Look
Marcel Le Picard photographed the train robbery and the farm.
Music
Silent, with English intertitles.
Preservation
Selected for the National Film Registry in 2021. A print is on the Internet Archive.
Notes
- Josie Sedgwick plays Rose Hardy. Charles K. French plays Judge Jim Hardy. James Mason plays Bert Rooker. Willard Louis plays Punt.
- This Judge Hardy is not the father in the later Andy Hardy series.
- The Library of Congress named it to the National Film Registry in 2021.
- Rogers is credited with a hand in the titles as well as the lead.
Scenes
- Jubilo watches the train robbery and then hides out as a farmhand.
- He spots Bert Rooker in town and blocks the plan to blame Judge Hardy.
Influenced by
- Jubilo by Ben Ames Williams
Also available
- Internet Archive (silent-jubilo)
