His Back Against the Wall

May 21, 1922

0h 50m

★ 0.0

Don't miss this great romance-you'll revel in its intensity and you'll wish it for your own.

Overview

Jeremy Dice, a finisher in a New York East Side tailor shop who prides himself on being a smart dresser and dancer, proves to be cowardly when he retreats from a bully who gets fresh with his girl, and his employer discharges him. Deciding to go out west, Jeremy is caught hitching the rails and comes upon two outlaws in the desert disputing over booty; they are both killed in a shoot-out, and Jeremy is proclaimed a hero by the sheriff.....

Genres

Comedy

Western

Production Companies

Goldwyn Pictures Corporation

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Cast

Jeremy Dice

Raymond Hatton

Mary Welling

Virginia Valli

Sheriff Lawrence

Will Walling

Dorothy Petwell

Shannon Day

Bronc Lewis

J. Gordon Russell

Henry Welling

W.H. Bainbridge

Mrs. Welling

Virginia Madison

Arizona Pete

Fred Kohler

Dr. Farley

Dudley Hendricks

Lew Shaler

Jack Curtis

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