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John Ford (billed Jack Ford), 1920, his first film for Fox. Buck Jones is Bim, the town loafer, who takes in Bill, a boy thrown off a freight. Helen Ferguson is the schoolteacher Bim loves; her fiancé, a bank teller, has borrowed the school memorial fund. Working title Bimbo. Five reels, photographed by George Schneiderman. The pairing of a drifter and a kid reached theaters a few months before Chaplin's The Kid.
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Jack Ford, twenty-five, a town loafer and a boy off a freight. Not quite a Western, already a Ford: the drifter, the schoolteacher, the community one stranger from being a place. Watch Buck Jones sit. Ford already knew how to photograph a man doing nothing.
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