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The Yiddisher Cowboy
(1911) United States of America
B&W : Split-reel
Directed by Allan Dwan
Cast: J. Warren Kerrigan [John Darrow], Pauline Bush, George Periolat [Ikey Rosenthal]
American Film Manufacturing Company production; distributed by Motion Picture Distributing & Sales Company. / Released 19 June 1911; in a split-reel with The Broncho Buster’s Bride (1911). / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Comedy: Western.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Ikey Rosenthal finds peddling a bum business in Wyoming. Consequently he is highly elated when John Darrow, foreman of the “X Bar” outfit, offers him a job punching cows. He is fitted out at the ranch in chaps, spurs, sombrero, etc., and feels that he is a regular cowboy. On his first appearance in his new outfit the boys work their game of gun music on him and, in this instance, are treated to a genuine Yiddisher dance. Ikey is very angry, but bides his time until he can even up the score. He learns the work on the ranch and one day succeeds in roping a cow, thinking he has roped a steer. Payday the boys follow their time-honored custom and go to town to celebrate. Ikey, however, with true business instinct, remains at the ranch and, during the cowboy’s absence, gets out his old peddling pack and sets up a pawn shop in a corner of the ranch yard. The boys return from town broke and when Ikey shows them his pawn shop they decide to “hock” their guns. Ikey gets possession of every gun on the ranch and then starts to do a little shooting himself. The boys scatter at his approach and the Yiddisher cowboy is monarch of all he surveys.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Jews
Listing updated: 13 September 2023.
References: Lyons-American p. 219 : Website-IMDb.
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