The Pretender

1918
50m

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After Bob Baldwin is fired for playing too many jokes on the tenderfoot owner of the Diamond K Ranch, he sets out for the nearby town of Freloe Beanos and meets Percival Longstreet on the wa... Read allAfter Bob Baldwin is fired for playing too many jokes on the tenderfoot owner of the Diamond K Ranch, he sets out for the nearby town of Freloe Beanos and meets Percival Longstreet on the way. Percival has been seriously injured in an accident and is therefore unable to assume hi... Read allAfter Bob Baldwin is fired for playing too many jokes on the tenderfoot owner of the Diamond K Ranch, he sets out for the nearby town of Freloe Beanos and meets Percival Longstreet on the way. Percival has been seriously injured in an accident and is therefore unable to assume his duties as the town's new schoolmaster. Distressed, Percival confesses that he and his si... Read all

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William Desmond

Bob Baldwin

Ethel Fleming

Dolly Longstreet

Eugene Burr

Othelo Actwell

Joseph Franz

Percival Longstreet
(as Joseph J. Franz)

Charles Thurston

Harold Whiteside
(as C.E. Thurston)

Graham Pettie

Seth Higgins

Percy Challenger

Rev. Harold Upright

Walter Perkins

Ezra Hoskish

Joseph Singleton

Hi Newsome
(as Joe Singleton)

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Riding Into the Sunset

The whereabouts of "The Pretender" is unknown; presently, it's a lost and gone comedy-western. As "Bob Baldwin", leading man "William Desmond is an actor capable of subtleties," read the contemporary review in "Motion Picture Magazine" (February 1919), "In this story of a cow-puncher who pretends to be a school-teacher in order to keep the position for the real claimant (Joseph Franz as Percival Longstreet), who has been injured by a fall; Bill Desmond is given a chance to ride a horse, rope criminals, and do other stunts. He does them well; but, he is worthy of less obvious roles. Ethel Fleming (as Dolly) has the part opposite the star." Mr. Desmond was the magazine's #51 popular screen player for the year 1918.

**** The Pretender (10/13/18) Clifford Smith ~ William Desmond, Ethel Fleming, Joseph Franz, Joseph Singleton