Reggie Mixes In
About Reggie Mixes In
Rich Reggie Morton is bored with his set. He finds Agnes Shannon dancing in a Bowery cabaret and takes a job as the bouncer so he can stay near her. Gang leader Tony Bernard wants Agnes and sends his men after Reggie. Reggie beats them, then fights Tony alone in an empty warehouse to settle which of them gets her.
Cast & crew
More about Reggie Mixes In
Christy Cabanne directed. Fine Arts produced it and Triangle distributed it. The working title was The Bouncer. Most of it was shot in a studio. Some scenes were filmed at Newport in Orange County in 1916. It is also known as Facing the Music. The film survives and is in the public domain.
Themes
Making
Fairbanks was still at Triangle's Fine Arts unit, making athletic comedies. The Bowery bouncer job is the excuse for the fights.
Reviews
Reviews of the time were strong for Fairbanks and mixed for Bessie Love.
Music
Silent.
Preservation
The film is extant and in the public domain.
Notes
- Douglas Fairbanks plays Reggie Morton. Bessie Love plays Agnes Shannon. William Lowery plays Tony Bernard. Alma Rubens plays Lemona Reighley.
- Joseph Singleton plays Old Pickleface. Lillian Langdon plays Reggie's Aunt Susan.
- Contemporary notices praised Fairbanks and were mixed on Love.
- A surviving print runs 44 minutes and 51 seconds.
Scenes
- Reggie takes the bouncer's job at the cabaret where Agnes works.
- He and Tony Bernard fight it out in an empty warehouse.
