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The Knickerbocker Buckaroo

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Story by
  
Douglas Fairbanks

Cast
  
Douglas Fairbanks

Country
  
United States

6.1/10
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Genre
  
Comedy, Romance, Western

Producer
  
Douglas Fairbanks

Duration
  

The Knickerbocker Buckaroo FileThe Knickerbocker Buckaroo 1919 Ad 4jpg Wikimedia Commons


Language
  
Silent English intertitles

Director
  
Albert Parker Arthur Rosson (asst. director)

Release date
  
May 18, 1919 (1919-05-18)

Writer
  
Douglas Fairbanks, Joseph Henabery

Directors
  
Albert Parker, Arthur Rosson

Similar movies
  
Douglas Fairbanks appears in The Knickerbocker Buckaroo and His Majesty - the American

The Knickerbocker Buckaroo was a 1919 American silent Western/romantic comedy film directed by Albert Parker and starring Douglas Fairbanks, who also wrote (under the pseudonym Elton Thomas) and produced the film. The Knickerbocker Buckaroo is now considered lost.

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Synopsis

Fairbanks plays a hedonistic New York City aristocrat who tries to change his selfish ways by heading to Sonora, Texas to carry out a campaign of altruism. Along the way, he is mistaken for a Mexican bandit and is pursued by a corrupt sheriff who is in pursuit of the bandit's hidden fortune.

Production background

The Knickerbocker Buckaroo was Fairbanks' last film under his contract with Paramount Pictures. After this production, he worked exclusively at United Artists, a company he co-founded in 1919 with Mary Pickford, Charles Chaplin, and D. W. Griffith.

Cast

  • Douglas Fairbanks as Teddy Drake
  • Marjorie Daw as Rita Allison
  • William A. Wellman as Henry (Wellman's debut in the film industry)
  • Frank Campeau as Crooked Sheriff
  • Edythe Chapman as Teddy's Mother
  • Albert MacQuarrie as Manual Lopez
  • Ernest Butterworth
  • References

    The Knickerbocker Buckaroo Wikipedia
    The Knickerbocker Buckaroo IMDb