Second Fiddle (Reel 4) (1923, silent)

Description: "Jim, a boy who has always played second fiddle to his elder brother, Herbert, gets a chance to be a hero when, to protect his mother and sweetheart, Polly, he holds a murderer at bay with an unloaded shotgun. (Herbert took the shells when he went for help.) Eventually Jim faints, and Cragg, the killer, overpowers him. Simultaneously, Herbert returns with help; he takes all the credit and makes Jim look like a coward. Later, Jim proves his courage when he saves Polly and overpowers Cragg, now an escaped convict. Herbert bows to Jim and returns to college."

(catalog.afi.com/Film/11942-SECOND-FIDDLE. accessed 2024-01-03)

Reel four. The film was broken into reels approximately 15 minutes in length for the rental market.

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Subjects: 1920s, Firearms

Tags: storm special effects; train to Boston schedule; melodramas; intertitles; kitchens; driving cars; jail cells; letters;

Film Sponsor:

Creator: Tuttle Waller

Credits: A Tuttle Waller Production

Production Company: Film Guild

Distribution Company: W. W. Hodkinson Corp.

Director: Frank Tuttle

Writers: Frank Tuttle, James Ashmore Creelman

Photography: Fred Waller Jr.

Cast:

Glenn Hunter: Jim Bradley

Mary Astor: Polly Crawford

Townsend Martin: Herbert Bradley

William Nally: Cragg

Leslie Stowe: George Bradley

Mary Foy: Mrs. Bradley

Helenka Adamowska: Cragg's daughter

Otto Lang: Dr. Crawford

Osgood Perkins

Distributor: Mogull Brothers

Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Mogull Bros.

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Production Date:

Release Date: 1923

Geographical Location: USA

Genre/Form: fiction

Language: eng

Rights:

Film Format: 16mm film

Element: positive

Color: b&w

Color Process: tinted

Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: triangle circle

Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 319