Bad Boy
(1925) United States of America
B&W : Two reels
Directed by Leo McCarey
Cast: Charley Chase [Jimmy Jump], Martha Sleeper [Jimmy’s girlfriend], Evelyn Burns [Jimmy’s mother], Hardee Kirkland [Jimmy’s father], Noah Young [the dance hall troublemaker], Eddie Borden [the dance hall proprietor], Dick Gilbert [a tough in the dance hall], Charlie Hall [a tough in the dance hall], Katherine Grant [a dancer], Jack Gavin [the policeman], Dave Anderson [the foreman], Charles Force [an iron worker], Sam Lufkin [an iron worker], John M. O’Brien [an iron worker], Robert Page [an iron worker], Leo Willis [an iron worker], ‘Tonnage’ Martin Wolfkeil [the porter], [?] Olive Borden?
Hal Roach Studios, Incorporated, production; distributed by Pathé Exchange, Incorporated. / Produced by Hal Roach. Production supervision by F. Richard Jones. Photographed (cinematography) by Len Powers. Film editor, Richard C. Currier. Intertitles written by H.M. Walker. / Released 12 April 1925. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The production was shot 16-26 January 1925.
Comedy.
Survival status: Prints exist in the Museum of Modern Art film archive; in the George Eastman Museum film archive; and in the Filmoteca Espanola film archive.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 3 January 2025.
References: Everson-American p. 135; Magliozzi-Treasures n. 8093; Maltin-Selected p. 55 : Website-IMDb.
Home video: DVD.
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