The Fighting Adventurer

19241924
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57m

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5.7/10

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Mary Astor and Pat O'Malley in The Fighting Adventurer (1924)

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Bill Pendleton is a happy-go-lucky college student adept at both flying and football, accepts a wager from his fraternity pals that he will propose to any girl in the college they choose. Ma... Read allBill Pendleton is a happy-go-lucky college student adept at both flying and football, accepts a wager from his fraternity pals that he will propose to any girl in the college they choose. Mary O'Malley is chosen and, unaware of the wager, accepts Bill's fraternity pin, Bill havin... Read allBill Pendleton is a happy-go-lucky college student adept at both flying and football, accepts a wager from his fraternity pals that he will propose to any girl in the college they choose. Mary O'Malley is chosen and, unaware of the wager, accepts Bill's fraternity pin, Bill having proposed to her in earnest. But Mary hears about the wager and thoroughly disgusted with... Read all

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Director
- Tom Forman
Writers
- William Elwell Oliver(story)
- Raymond L. Schrock(adaptation)
- Harvey Gates(scenario)
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Bill Pendleton is a happy-go-lucky college student adept at both flying and football, accepts a wager from his fraternity pals that he will propose to any girl in the college they choose. Mary O'Malley is chosen and, unaware of the wager, accepts Bill's fraternity pin, Bill having proposed to her in earnest. But Mary hears about the wager and thoroughly disgusted with Bill, leaves college and goes to China to join her missionary father. A remorseful Bill follows her there and redeems himself by rescuing Mary and her father from a band of revolutionaries. —Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>

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A Jewel Production. Universal, not owning a proprietary theater chain, devised a 3-tiered branding system for marketing its feature product to independent theater owners: Red Feather (low-budget programmers), Bluebird (mainstream releases), and Jewel (prestige productions). Jewels were often promoted as special engagements in hopes of commanding higher roadshow ticket prices. Universal ended its branding system in late 1929.

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From a skimming of the original reviews for THE FIGHTING AMERICAN, this weird movie was considered a parody of other films of the period. You got the all-American college kid, the goody-goody love interest (played by a gorgeous young Mary Astor), and a melodramatic series of events in China. The plot lurches along, caring very little if any of the plot progressions make sense, but then again, the point of the movie was its silliness anyway, as telegraphed from the introductory title card describing the movie as "nonsense." However, the film wasn't weird enough for me to recommend it to any but the extremely curious.

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