Roped
Sign in to savethumb|Scene from the film Roped was a 1919 American Western-comedy film directed by John Ford and featuring Harry Carey. The film is considered to be lost. Roped is one of at least 25 films in which director John Ford and actor Harry Carey collaborated on between the years of 1917 and 1921. Ford saw Carry as a mentor and their worked on the story ideas for several of their films together.
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7.0Wealthy ranch owner Cheyenne Harry decides he needs a housekeeper, but his cowboys decide he needs a wife and advertise in an eastern newspaper. The ad is answered by Aileen Judson-Brown, as dictated by her fortune-hunting mother. Harry marries Aileen and a baby is born a year later. Deciding to gain more money and social standing, Mrs. Judson-Brown then tries to break up the marriage so that Aileen can marry Ferdie Van Duzen. Mrs. Judson-Brown steals the baby and tells Harry the baby has died and Aileen no longer loves him. Harry goes out West in sorrow, but when Mrs. Judson-Brown's butler wires Harry the truth, Harry locates the baby and discovers Aileen still loves him. The reunited family goes West together, leaving Mrs. Judson-Brown behind.
Released: 1919-01-0360 minDir: John FordComedy, Western
Cast
- Harry Carey as Cheyenne Harry
- Neva Gerber as Aileen Judson-Brown
- Molly McConnell as Mrs Judson-Brown
- J. Farrell MacDonald as Butler
- Arthur Shirley as Ferdie Van Duzen
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- Film.name
- Roped
- Film.image
- Roped-1919film-advert.jpg
- Film.caption
- Magazine advertisement
- Film.director
- John Ford
- Film.screenplay
- Eugene B. Lewis
- Film.story
- Eugene B. Lewis
- Film.starring
- Harry Carey
- Film.cinematography
- John W. Brown
- Film.distributor
- Universal Film Manufacturing Company
- Film.runtime
- 60 minutes
- Film.country
- United States
- Film.language
- SilentEnglish intertitles
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- Published
- 1 January 1919
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- film
- Genre
- silent film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Director
- John Ford
- Cast member
- J. Farrell MacDonald
- Duration
- +60
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- P462
- black-and-white
- P6216
- public domain
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thumb|Scene from the film Roped was a 1919 American Western-comedy film directed by John Ford and featuring Harry Carey. The film is considered to be lost. Roped is one of at least 25 films in which director John Ford and actor Harry Carey collaborated on between the years of 1917 and 1921. Ford saw Carry as a mentor and their worked on the story ideas for several of their films together.
During these collaborations, Carey made more per film then Ford. By 1919, the year Roped came out, Ford was making 300 dollars a week, Carey was making 1,250. This differential in pay led to tension between the two.
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1910s Western (genre) comedy films1919 American films1919 comedy films1919 English-language films1919 films1919 lost filmsAmerican black-and-white filmsEnglish-language Western (genre) comedy filmsFilms directed by John FordLost American silent Western (genre) comedy filmsTemplate film date with 1 release dateUniversal Pictures films