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Red Hicks Defies the World
(1913) United States of America
B&W : Split-reel
Directed by Dell Henderson
Cast: Charles Murray [Red Hicks], Edward Dillon [O’Shea, the Fighting Irishman], Dorothy Gish [Hicks’ sweetheart], Kate Toncray [Hicks’ mother], Bud Duncan [Hicks’ trainer], William J. Butler [the first creditor], Adolph Lestina [the second creditor], Lionel Barrymore [the referee], [?] William Beaudine [a man in the ring], [?] Gertrude Bambrick? [a woman in the crowd], [?] Harry Carey? [a man in the crowd], [?] John T. Dillon? [a man in the crowd], [?] Frank Evans? [a man in the crowd], [?] Charles Gorman? [a man in the crowd], [?] Harry Hyde? [a man in the crowd], [?] J. Jiquel Lanoe? [a man in the crowd], [?] Charles Hill Mailes? [a man in the crowd], [?] Joseph McDermott? [a man in the crowd], [?] Walter Miller? [a man in the crowd], [?] Frank Opperman? [a man in the crowd], [?] Alfred Paget? [a man in the crowd], [?] Henry B. Walthall? [a man in the crowd], [?] Charles West? [a man in the crowd]
Biograph Company production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / From a screen story by William E. Wing. Assistant director, William Beaudine. / Released 9 June 1913; in a split-reel with Jenks Becomes a Desperate Character (1913). / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Comedy.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Hard as nails and as strong winded as a gale in March, Red Hicks may have been a bit “chesty,” but he was in perfect trim. The town depended on the champion, O’Shea, the fighting Irishman, to make soft putty of the world famous pugilist, but on the day of the fight there was no O’Shea. The supposition was he did not have the price: and other domestic difficulties interfered. O’Shea’s trainer, however, solved the problem and Red Hicks found his Waterloo.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 12 October 2023.
References: Spehr-American p. 3 : Website-IMDb.
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