Lazybones (1925 film)
| Lazybones | |
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| Directed by | Frank Borzage |
| Produced by | Frank Borzage |
| Written by |
Frances Marion from a play by Owen Davis |
| Starring |
Madge Bellamy Charles "Buck" Jones Zasu Pitts |
| Cinematography |
Glen MacWilliams George Schneiderman |
| Distributed by | Fox Film Corporation |
Release dates |
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Running time | 8 reels |
| Country | United States |
| Language |
Silent film English intertitles |
Lazybones is a silent film, a drama and romance, produced and directed by Frank Borzage, starring Madge Bellamy, Charles "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.
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, CA: 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
- ↑ Lazybones at silentera.com
External links
- Lazybones at the Internet Movie Database
- synopsis at AllMovie