The Good Bad-Man
About The Good Bad-Man
Passin' Through robs trains to support children who have no fathers. A U.S. marshal who knows more about Passin's birth than he does is already on his trail. He meets Amy and falls in love with her, while the bandit called the Wolf wants her too. Passin' and Amy marry.
Cast & crew
More about The Good Bad-Man
Allan Dwan directed. Douglas Fairbanks wrote the story and produced it with Fine Arts. Victor Fleming photographed it. Triangle Film Corporation released it on April 21, 1916. Tri-Stone Pictures re-edited it and put it out again on October 19, 1923. A title card on the reissue says it was supervised by D. W. Griffith.
Themes
Making
Fairbanks biographer Jeffrey Vance ties Passin' Through's questions about an absent father to Fairbanks's own childhood. His father, H. Charles Ulman, left the family when Douglas was five. Ulman died in 1915, the year before Fairbanks wrote this story. The family then used the surname Fairbanks.
Look
Victor Fleming photographed the five-reel Western.
Preservation
The 1916 release is not known in a print. The Library of Congress preserves the 1923 Tri-Stone reissue, which was restored and shown at the Castro Theatre on May 31, 2014. A copy of that version is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- Bessie Love plays Amy. Sam De Grasse plays Bud Frazer, the Wolf. Pomeroy Cannon plays Marshal Bob Evans. Mary Alden plays Jane Stuart.
- At the Los Angeles premiere Bessie Love sang Ethelbert Nevin's song The Rosary.
- No print of the 1916 release is known. The Library of Congress holds the 1923 reissue.
- A restored 1923 print was shown at the Castro Theatre on May 31, 2014, during the San Francisco Silent Film Festival.
Scenes
- Passin' Through holds up a train and turns the money toward children with no fathers.
- He and Amy marry after the Wolf is out of the way.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (The Good Bad Man (1916).webm)
