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The Bantam Cowboy
(1928) United States of America
B&W : Six reels / 4893 feet
Directed by Louis King

Cast: Buzz Barton [David ‘Red’ Hepner], Frank Rice [‘Sidewinder Steve’], Tom Lingham (Thomas G. Lingham) [John Briggs], Dorothy Kitchen (Nancy Drexel) [Nan Briggs], Bob Fleming [Sheriff Jason Todd], Bill Patton [Chuck Rogers], Sam Nelson [Jim Thornton]

[?] Film Booking Offices of America, Incorporated, or F.B.O. Productions, Incorporated? production; distributed by Film Booking Offices of America, Incorporated [FBO]. / Scenario by Frank Howard Clark, from a screen story by Robert North Bradbury (Robert N. Bradbury). Costume design by Walter Plunkett. Cinematography by Roy Eslick. Film editor, Della M. King. Intertitles written by Frank Daugherty. / © 12 August 1928 by [?] F.B.O. Productions, Incorporated? [LP25528]. Released 12 August 1928. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Silent film.

Drama: Western.

Reviews: [Photoplay, April 1929, page 8] Only good because Buzz Barton is in it.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 22 August 2023.

References: Photoplay-192904 p. 8 : Website-AFI; Website-IMDb.