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’49-’17
Also known as The Old West Per Contract in the USA : {Forty-Nine to Seventeen}, {Forty-Nine Seventeen}
(1917) United States of America
B&W : Five reels
Directed by Ruth Ann Baldwin
Cast: Joseph Girard (Joseph W. Girard) [Judge Brand], Leo Pierson [Tom Reeves / Tom Robbins], William J. Dyer (William Dyer) [J. Gordon Castle], George Pearce (George C. Pearce) [Ezra Bobbett], Martha Witting (Mattie Witting) [Ma Bobbett], Donna Drew [Lady Ann Bobbett], Jean Hersholt [‘Gentleman’ Jim Rayner], Harry Rattenbury [Colonel Hungerford]
The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated, production; distributed by The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated [Butterfly]. / Scenario by Ruth Ann Baldwin, from the short story “The Old West Per Contract” by William Wallace Cook. / © 5 October 1917 by The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated [LP11510]. Released 15 October 1917. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The original title of the film was The Old West Per Contract.
Comedy-Drama: Western.
Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.1465.
Survival status: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Abductions - Actors - Animals: Horses - Boom towns - Crime: Robberies - Gamblers - Gold - Law: Judges - Mining camps - Rescues - Rivals - Secretaries - Stagecoaches - Weapons: Guns
Listing updated: 18 October 2008.
References: AFI-F1 n. F1.1465; Hirschhorn-Universal p. 27; Spehr-American p. 273 : ClasIm-220 p. 36; ClasIm-226 p. 41 : Website-IMDb : Documentary-Slide.
Home video: Blu-ray Disc, DVD.
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