An Unwilling Hero

Jan 8, 1921

0h 55m

★ 0.0

America's Most Natural Screen Comedian in a Picture Founded upon a Story by America's Greatest Short Story Writer

Overview

As a man travels down to New Orleans for the winter, he finds out a robbery will be taken place on Christmas night in a plantation. he helps a girl by making it available for her to marry her boyfriend.

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

Goldwyn Pictures Corporation

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Cast

Dick

Will Rogers

Nadine

Molly Malone

Hunter

John Bowers

Richmond

Darrell Foss

Boston Harry

Jack Curtis

Hobo

George Kunkel

Hobo

Larry Fisher

Hobo

Leo Willis

Servant

Nick Cogley

Hobo

Richard Johnson

Fed up with forced cheer, twelve-dish feasts and predictable gifts, one person rejects the usual Christmas ritual and flees to the unknown, finally doing what they truly desire instead of what they must. This holiday, nothing will be the same: the world turns upside down and even the wildest dreams may come true.

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