| Lazybones | |
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| Directed by | Frank Borzage |
| Written by | Frances Marion |
| Based on | Lazybones by Owen Davis |
| Produced by | Frank Borzage |
| Starring | Madge Bellamy Buck Jones Zasu Pitts |
| Cinematography | Glen MacWilliams George Schneiderman |
| Distributed by | Fox Film Corporation |
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Running time | 8 reels |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
Lazybones is a 1925 American silent romantic drama film produced and directed by Frank Borzage and starring Madge Bellamy, Buck Jones, and Zasu Pitts. It opened in New York City on September 22, 1924, and received wider distribution by Fox Film Corporation during 1925.[1][2]
Plot
Set around 1900, the titular Lazybones is in love with Agnes. Her sister, Ruth, returns home with a child and a story about marrying a seaman who was lost at sea. She attempts suicide by jumping in the river, but Lazybones saves her and, taking pity on the child, Kit, adopts her without revealing her true mother. Agnes and Ruth's mother is very strict and when told by Ruth of the child, strikes her with a cane. As the years pass, Ruth dies and Lazybones goes off to World War I. When he returns, intending to marry Kit now that she is grown up, he finds that she is in love with Dick Ritchie.
Cast
- Buck Jones as Steve Tuttle aka Lazybones (credited as Charles 'Buck' Jones)
- Edythe Chapman as Mrs. Tuttle
- Madge Bellamy as Kit
- Zasu Pitts as Ruth Fanning
- Jane Novak as Agnes Fanning
- Emily Fitzroy as Mrs. Fanning
- Leslie Fenton as Dick Ritchie
- William Bailey as Elmer Ballister (credited as Wm. Norton Bailey)
- Virginia Marshall as Kit as a Young Girl
Preservation
Prints held at Archives Du Film Du CNC (or Bois d'Arcy), Cinematheque Royale de Belgique, Brussels, the Museum of Modern Art, and the George Eastman Museum.[3][4]
References
- ↑ American Film Institute (1997). The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States: Feature Films, 1921–1930. Berkeley, California: University of California Press. p. 427. 0520209699.
- ↑ The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: Lazybones
- ↑ The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Lazybones
- ↑ Progressive Silent Film List: Lazybones at silentera.com
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