Chip of the Flying U

Aug 29, 1914

0h 20m

★ 0.0

Overview

When he's fired from his bank job aimless Claude Bennett decides to head West. Once he gets a job as a cowboy on the Flying "U" ranch he restyles himself as Chip and discovers who he really is through a series of adventures.

Genres

Western

Production Companies

Selig Polyscope Company

Chip of the Flying U Trailers

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Cast

Claude Bennett aka Chip

Tom Mix

Della Whitmore - the 'Little Doctor'

Kathlyn Williams

Weary

Wheeler Oakman

Patsy - the Cook

Frank Clark

Old Man Whitmore

Fred Huntley

Dunk

Jack McDonald

Dr. Cecil Grantham

Bessie Eyton

William S. Hart directs and stars in a film that is a typical Western of the era. He plays Jim, a prospector who lands in the town of Broken Hope, and the name pretty much describes its inhabitants. Jim meets and falls in love with Jennie (Margery Wilson), whose father (Walt Whitman) is gravely ill. Jim rounds up a reluctant doctor from another town to tend to the old man, but he dies anyway. The doctor, however, gains Jennie's trust and she runs off with him. Only then does he tell her he's already married. She leaves immediately, but is too proud to go home so she finds work as a dance hall girl at Tacoma Jake's saloon. Jim, meanwhile, finds gold near Broken Hope, which raises its inhabitants' attitudes considerably. But the bad element is still there, and Jim is chasing after a group of kidnappers when he enters Tacoma Jake's saloon and sees Jennie. Jim not only overcomes the bad guys, he gets the girl, too.

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