Battling Bunyan (1924)
A young man has a chance to become partners in an auto-repair business, but he doesn't have the money. In order to come up with some quick cash, he decides to temporarily become a professional boxer. The problem is that he isn't an athlete, knows nothing about boxing and stands a very good chance of getting the stuffing beaten out of him.
- Date of release
- 1924-02-11
- TMDB
- 7.0 / 10 (1)
- Runtime
- 53m
- Genres
- Comedy
- Director
- Paul Hurst
Casting
- Wesley Barry — Battling Bunyan
- Frank Campeau — Jim Canby
- Landers Stevens — Pierson
- Al Kaufman — Referee
- Johnny Relasco — Johnny Prentiss
- Molly Malone — Molly Coshgan
- Jackie Fields — Sailor Levinsky
- Chester Conklin — A Stranger
- Pat Kemp — Rudy - the Trained Seal
- Harry Mann — Manager
Interesting facts
Battling Bunyan is a 1924 American silent sports comedy film directed by Paul Hurst and starring Wesley Barry, Frank Campeau, and Molly Malone. It was based on a short story in the Saturday Evening Post by Raymond Leslie Goldman. In order to raise cash in a hurry, a young man takes up professional boxing despite the fact he is totally unsuited to it.
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