The Battling Fool (1924)
William Fairbanks stars in this fighting feature about a rural rube who enters the ring to earn prize money to help a crippled girl.
- Date of release
- 1924-08-01
- TMDB
- 9.0 / 10 (1)
- Runtime
- 44m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- W.S. Van Dyke
Casting
- William Fairbanks — Mark Jenkins
- Eva Novak — Helen Chadwick
- Fred J. Butler — Hiram Chadwick
- Laura Winston — Mrs.Chadwick
- Mark Fenton — Reverend Josiah Jenkins
- Catherine Craig — Madeline Le Bertin
- Jack Byron — Clarence Lorraine
- Pat Harmon — Jerry Sullivan
- Andrew Waldron — Reuben - the Chief of Police
- Ted Adams — Townsman at Boxing Match (uncredited)
- Edgar Kennedy — Dan O'Leary (as Ed Kennedy)
Interesting facts
The Battling Fool is a 1924 American silent melodrama film directed by W. S. Van Dyke. It was produced and distributed by Columbia Pictures. The film survives in the Library of Congress film archive as well as in private film collections.
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