Billy Jim
1922 film
Billy Jim is a 1922 American silent comedy western film directed by Frank Borzage and starring Fred Stone, Marian Skinner and George Hernandez.
01Plot
Billy Jim is a wealthy westerner posing as a happy-go-lucky cowboy. He boards a train and gets into an argument with a man. He meets a girl who berates him for his actions. However, he falls in love with her. Later, while drunk, he finds her bound to a chair in a cabin and after releasing her learns that she is traveling with her father to a resort. Billy Jim then robs some men playing a card game and hires a driver to take him to the girl's father's resort. He learns the resort is next to a mining camp, which the father also owns. The sheriff then arrives to arrest him for stealing money. It is revealed that he is a wealthy cattle owner. Billy Jim departs, but the girl follows to return his gun.
02Cast
- Fred Stone as Billy Jim
- Millicent Fisher as Marsha Dunforth
- George Hernandez as Dudley Dunforth
- Billy Bletcher as Jimmy
- Marian Skinner as Mrs. Dunforth
- Frank Thorne as Roy Forsythe
Sources and credits
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