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The Broadway Sport

Jun 10, 1917

0h 50m

★ 0.0

When A Rube Turns Villian And strikes out to break the speed records in the White Lights, there's no telling what will happen. Many of the hair-raising possibilities are seen.

Overview

Hezekiah Dill is a meek clerk in a store in a small town. One day a pair of criminals robs the store safe, but Hezekiah manages to lock them in the safe, and begins to pick up their intended loot. He suddenly realizes that all this money would enable him to become the "Broadway Sport" he's always wanted to be, so he goes for it. Complications ensue.

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

Fox Film Corporation

The Broadway Sport Trailers

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Cast

Hezekiah Dill

Stuart Holmes

Sadie Sweet

Wanda Hawley

Hector Sweet

Dan Mason

Violet Gaffney

Mabel Rutter

John D. Boulder

William B. Green

The Hypnotist

Mario Majeroni

Plainclothes Policeman

Jay Wilson

His Counselor

J. Sullivan

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