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The Fighting Grin
(1918) United States of America
B&W : Five reels
Directed by Joseph de Grasse

Cast: Franklyn Farnum [Billy Kennedy], Edith Johnson [Margie Meredith], J. Morris Foster [Harold De Vanderveer], Charles H. Mailes [Otis Kennedy], Fred Montague [Amos Meredith]

Bluebird Photoplays, Incorporated, production; distributed by Bluebird Photoplays, Incorporated, through The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated. / Scenario by Charles Kenyon, from the short story “The Catamount” by Robert North Bradbury and Frank Howard Clark. Cinematography by Jack McKenzie. / © 9 January 1918 by Bluebird Photoplays, Incorporated [LP11916]. Released 28 January 1918. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Comedy: Western.

Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.1328.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Bandits - Families: Father-daughter relationships, Father-son relationships - Ranches - Transportation: Trains - USA: Arizona

Listing updated: 29 January 2010.

References: AFI-F1 n. F1.1328; Hirschhorn-Universal p. 30 : ClasIm-224 p. 54 : Website-AFI.