Beauty and the Bad Man
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Directed byWilliam Worthington
Written byRichard Schayer
Frank E. Woods
Based on"Cornflower Cassie's Concert"
by Peter B. Kyne
StarringMabel Ballin
Forrest Stanley
Russell Simpson
Production
company
Peninsula Studios
Distributed byProducers Distributing Corporation
Release date
  • March 29, 1925 (1925-03-29)
Running time
60 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguagesSilent
English intertitles

Beauty and the Bad Man is a lost 1925 American silent Western film directed by William Worthington and starring Mabel Ballin, Forrest Stanley, and Russell Simpson.[1][2]

Plot

As described in a film magazine review,[3] Cassie, an orphan with vocal abilities, enters the mining town after fleeing from her worthless husband of one day. She meets the gambler, who likes her and stakes her with the money he won after breaking the bank. She uses the money to cultivate her voice, and then returns to the mining town famous. Her old husband wants her to return, and when she refuses he fires a gun, but he is late and is winged by a friend of the gambler. Cassie then realizes her love for the gambler.

Cast

Preservation

With no prints of Beauty and the Bad Man located in any film archives,[4] it is a lost film.

References

  1. ↑ Munden, Kenneth White (1997) [1971]. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press. p. 46. ISBN 0520209699.
  2. ↑ Progressive Silent Film List: Beauty and the Bad Man at silentera.com. November 18, 2022.
  3. ↑ "New Pictures: Beauty and the Bad Man". Exhibitors Herald. Vol. 21, no. 9. May 23, 1925. p. 129. Retrieved November 18, 2022. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  4. ↑ Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: Beauty and the Bad Man Library of Congress Retrieved November 18, 2022.
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