Honest Injun (1926)

HONEST INJUN
Distributor: Educational
Producer: Educational
Length: Two Reels

DIRECTOR ..... NORMAN TAUROG

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TYPE: Western comedy.
THEME: Proving his courage.
LOCALE: A Western town.
TIME: The presentSTORY: Force by his guardian a young man takes his valet and goes West to a ranch. He overhears the men planning to kidnap a girl to see whether or not he has courage. Their plans miscarry and the girl is kidnaped (sic) by a band of renegades. Believing it a joke the young man lets them get away. When he discovers his mistake he rescues the girl and captures the bad men.

HIGHLIGHTS: Young man's arrival on the ranch... Humorous incidents while on ranch.... Scene in which he overhears ranchmen plan kidnaping (sic)... Scene in which girl is really kidnaped (sic).... Her rescue by young man and his capture of bad men.

-- Exhibitor's Herald, July 17, 1926, page 57

JOHNNY ARTHUR in "Honest Injun" does as well as could be expected with the ancient material given him. The idea is the one about the young man sent to the ranch to be made a man of. Around this has been draped a great number of gags, most of them familiar, and such merriment as the comedy raises emanates from the comedian's speed.

The apparent dearth of ideas for short feature comedies isn't genuine. The great field of burlesque isn't being exploited. Parodies upon big pictures, following the originals by a sufficient time margin, are suggested herewith at no expense to those who decide what the short comedies will be.

-- Exhibitors Herald, August 14, 1926, page 51

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This work (Honest Injun (1926), by Tuxedo/Educational), identified by Bruce Calvert, is free of known copyright restrictions.

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