A Broadway Cowboy

A Broadway Cowboy

contemporary advertisement
Directed by Joseph Franz
Produced by Jesse D. Hampton
Written by George H. Plympton
Based on a short story, The Man from Make Believe by Byron Morgan
Starring William Desmond
Cinematography Harry Gerstad
Distributed by Pathé Exchange
Release dates
  • July 4, 1920 (1920-07-04)
Running time
5 reels
Country United States
Language Silent (English intertitles)

A Broadway Cowboy is a 1920 American silent Western film directed by Joseph Franz and starring William Desmond. It was distributed by Pathé Exchange.[1]

Plot

As described in a film magazine,[2] Betty Jordan (Francisco), daughter of a Montana banker, is in the East attending boarding school and falls desperately in love with Burke Randolph (Desmond), a matinee idol, who performs valiant deeds behind the footlights each night in the title role of an old-fashioned melodrama, The Western Knight. She is expelled from school after Burke treats a chaperon rather roughly during an automobile ride. When Betty returns home to Montana, Sheriff Pat McGann (Delmar), who is in love with her, finds a picture she has of Burke in his cowboy suit, and in a fit of jealousy sends copies of it out to the other neighboring sheriffs with the request that Burke be arrested on sight. When his show hits a small western town, Burke is arrested. He manages to escape, and in a series of exciting incidents accidentally captures four desperadoes who in the prior night had robbed Betty's father's bank. Burke is proclaimed as a hero and wins Betty as his bride.

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