The Mollycoddle (1920)
After finishing his first costumer swashbuckler The Mark of Zorro, Douglas Fairbanks Sr. reverted to his standard formula with the contemporary action comedy The Mollycoddle. Doug plays the title character, a dandified American who returns to his home in the Wild West after being educated in England. Suspected of being little more than a pantywaist, Doug proves his grit by capturing notorious desperado Wallace Beery. Fairbanks and Tom Geraghty co-adapted The Mollycoddle from a short story by Harold McGrath. He followed this picture with another modern comedy, The Nut, then devoted the rest of the 1920s to such period pictures as Robin Hood, The Thief of Baghdad and The Gaucho. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Director(s):
- Victor Fleming
Synopsis of The Mollycoddle
After finishing his first costumer swashbuckler The Mark of Zorro, Douglas Fairbanks Sr. reverted to his standard formula with the contemporary action comedy The Mollycoddle. Doug plays the title character, a dandified American who returns to his home in the Wild West after being educated in England. Suspected of being little more than a pantywaist, Doug proves his grit by capturing notorious desperado Wallace Beery. Fairbanks and Tom Geraghty co-adapted The Mollycoddle from a short story by Harold McGrath. He followed this picture with another modern comedy, The Nut, then devoted the rest of the 1920s to such period pictures as Robin Hood, The Thief of Baghdad and The Gaucho. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Complete Cast of The Mollycoddle
- Wallace Beery - Henry von Holkar
- Paul E. Burns - Samuel Levinski
- Lewis Hippe - First Mate
- Albert MacQuarrie - Desert Yacht Driver
- Charles Stevens - Yellow Horse
- Douglas Fairbanks - Richard Marshall
- Betty Boulton - Molly Warren
- Adele Farrington - Mrs. Warren
- Morris Hughes - Patrick O'Flannigan
- Ruth Renick - Virginia Hale
- George Stewart - Ole Olsen
- Director(s):
- Victor Fleming
- Writer(s):
- Tom J. Geraghty
- Producer(s):
- Douglas Fairbanks
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