The Iron Nag
About The Iron Nag
Kentucky colonel Andy Clyde will be ruined unless his horse wins the steeplechase, and Jack Richardson's Eric Legree has the police lock the animal up with its jockey, Billy Bevan. Bevan and the horse break jail and reach the track with a car of cops behind them. During the chase a dog tied to Sunshine Hart's wheelchair bolts after a cat; Bevan's lasso snags Hart instead of the chair and she goes flying. Bevan still gets the horse home first.
Cast & crew
More about The Iron Nag
Mack Sennett produced the two-reeler. Frank Capra and Jefferson Moffitt wrote the scenario, John A. Waldron supervised, and William Hornbeck edited. Pathé Exchange released it on August 9, 1925, in the Pathécomedy series.
Themes
Look
George Spear and George Unholz photographed the short. Ernie Crockett is credited for special cinematography.
Preservation
A print exists. Copies in circulation run about eleven minutes, short of the original two reels. Silent Era lists the U.S. rights as public domain.
Notes
- Billy Bevan plays jockey Joe Gobb, Ruth Taylor is Hazel Calhoun, and Andy Clyde is Colonel Calhoun.
- Felix Adler and Al Giebler wrote the intertitles.
- Joe Young, later billed as Roger Moore, plays the race starter. Spencer Bell appears as another jockey.
- Silent Era lists the short as a Mack Sennett, Incorporated production and notes that a print survives in the public domain in the United States.
- Collector prints run about eleven minutes. Dave Glass, working from a 16mm copy, has said he does not believe a complete two-reel version is still around.
Scenes
- Bevan and the horse smash out of jail and make the starting line with police cars in pursuit.
- A dog drags Sunshine Hart's wheelchair after a cat, and Bevan's lasso yanks her into the air.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (The Iron Nag (1925).webm)
