Just Pals (1920)

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  • JUST PALS


    DIRECTED BY JOHN FORD (Jack Ford)
    FOX FILM CORPORATION


    INFORMATION FROM IMDb


    Plot Summary
    Bim is the town ne'er-do-well, lazy and shiftless, living a catch-as-catch-can existence.
    He feels no shame about his tattered clothing and seems impervious to the derision and ridicule
    he endures from his fellow citizens in his rural, early 20th Century village.
    Despite this, Bim is a kind-hearted soul, and that becomes very apparent
    when he rescues a young runaway from a beating by a railroad cop at the expense of being beaten himself.
    Young Bill reciprocates Bim's kindness and has to endure taunting and abuse
    from the school bully to defend his 'pal.'
    Bim wants Bill to rise above his station and encourages him to bathe
    and attend the town's modest one-room schoolhouse presided over by pretty schoolmarm Mary Bruce.
    She is being courted by the outwardly respectable bank clerk Harvey Cahill,
    who has embezzled funds from his employer and ungallantly presses the kind-hearted Mary
    into lending him the school memorial fund money she is entrusted with to cover
    the shortfall for the bank ...
    Written by duke1029

    Cast
    Buck Jones ... Bim
    Helen Ferguson ... Mary Bruce
    Georgie Stone ... Bill (as George Stone)
    Duke R. Lee ... Sheriff
    William Buckley ... Harvey Cahill
    Eunice Murdock Moore ... Mrs. Stone
    Bert Appling ... Brakeman
    Edwin B. Tilton ... Dr. Stone (as Edwin Booth Tilton)
    Slim Padgett ... Outlaw
    John B. Cooke ... Constable
    Helen Field
    Pedro León ... Undetermined Role
    Ida Tenbrook


    Directed
    John Ford ... (as Jack Ford)


    Writing Credits
    John McDermott ... (story)
    Paul Schofield


    Cinematography
    George Schneiderman


    Trivia
    This was John Ford's first picture with Fox Films
    after his contract with Universal Pictures expired.


    Goofs
    Continuity
    When Bim is on the porch talking to Cahill,
    the lighting on Bim's right side medium close-ups and left-side close-ups do not match.


    Memorable Quotes

    Best Wishes
    Keith
    London- England

    Edited 8 times, last by ethanedwards ().

  • Just Pals is a 1920 American silent Western film directed by John Ford,
    and was Ford's first film for Fox Film Corporation.




    User Review


    Quite watchable
    13 March 2010 | by planktonrules (Bradenton, Florida)

    Best Wishes
    Keith
    London- England

    Edited 12 times, last by ethanedwards ().