Second Fiddle (Reel 5) (1923, silent)

Description: Section of a feature film.

"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 2023-11-01)

Part 5. The film was broken into reels approximately 15 minutes in length for the rental market.

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Subjects: 1920s

Tags: burglaries; robberies; justice; romance; intertitles; melodramas; The End title; man holding up stairs

Film Sponsor:

Creator: Film Guild

Credits: Director: Frank Tuttle

Writers: Frank Tuttle, James Ashmore Creelman

Photography: Fred Waller Jr.

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:

Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Mogull Bros.

Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive

Production Date:

Release Date: 1923

Geographical Location: USA

Genre/Form: fiction, silent

Language: eng

Rights:

Film Format: 16mm film

Element: positive

Color: b&w

Color Process:

Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code:

Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 366