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The Phoney Express
Also known as {The Phony Express}
(1926) United States of America
B&W : One reel
Directed by Richard Smith
Cast: Charles Puffy (Károly Huszár) [Puffy, the express rider], Elsie Tarron [Little Nell], [?] ? [Big Horn Bill], [?] ? [Standing Cow, his wife], [?] ? [the Indian brave], [?] ? [the first tomatoed brave], [?] ? [the second tomatoed brave], [?] ? [the egg-sucking brave], [?] ? [the white rogue]
Universal Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Universal Pictures Corporation [Bluebird Comedies]. / From a screen story by Richard Smith. Supervising director, W. Scott Darling. Photographed (cinematography) by Otto Himm. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Comedy: Western.
Synopsis: [The Universal Weekly, 17 April 1926, page ?] Little Nell, fighting her way to Hollywood in a covered wagon, is besieged by Indians on the plain, and her little party defends itself from the oncoming reds while Puffy rides the Phoney Express to bring aid. He carries his horse across a stream, only to be kicked back to the starting point by the nag. He fills a cannon with tomatoes and aims it at the Indians but catches his foot in a rope which swings the cannon around, giving one of the defenders a tomato surprise. The Indians circle around the hero, filling him full of arrows which fail to penetrate the pulp, so he leisurely saves the girl with whom he innocently walks off a precipice and lands in the current below, wet but happy.
Survival status: Print exists in a private film collection [16mm reduction positive].
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 4 January 2025.
References: Film credits, film viewing : Website-IMDb.
Home video: DVD.
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