A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2024 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

About This Listing Report Omissions or Errors in This Listing

An Unwilling Hero
(1921) United States of America
B&W : Five reels / 4759 feet
Directed by Clarence G. Badger

Cast: Will Rogers [Dick], Molly Malone [Nadine], John Bowers [Hunter], Darrel Foss [Richmond], Jack Curtis [Boston Harry], George Kunkel [tramp], Dick Johnson [tramp], Larry Fisher [tramp], Leo Willis [tramp], Nick Cogley [Negro servant], Edward Kimball [Lovejoy]

Goldwyn Pictures Corporation production; distributed by [?] Goldwyn Distributing Corporation? / Scenario by Arthur F. Statter, from the short story “Whistling Dick’s Christmas Stocking” by O. Henry. Art direction by Cedric Gibbons. Cinematography by Marcel Le Picard. Presented by Goldwyn Pictures Corporation. / © 28 April 1921 by Goldwyn Pictures Corporation [LP16433]. Released May 1921. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Comedy-Drama: Adventure.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 30 November 2023.

References: Weaver-Twenty p. 309 : ClasIm-220 p. 43; ClasIm-225 p. 44 : Website-AFI; Website-ASFFDb.