His Back Against the Wall (1922)

His Back Against the Wall

1922

Comedy Western

Synopsis

Jeremy Dice, a finisher in a New York East Side tailor shop who prides himself on being a smart dresser and dancer, proves to be cowardly when he retreats from a bully who gets fresh with his girl, and his employer discharges him. Deciding to go out west, Jeremy is caught hitching the rails and comes upon two outlaws in the desert disputing over booty; they are both killed in a shoot-out, and Jeremy is proclaimed a hero by the sheriff.....

Credits

Director

Rowland V. Lee

Cast

Dudley Hendricks as Dr. Farley

Fred Kohler as Arizona Pete

J. Gordon Russell as Bronc Lewis

Jack Curtis as Lew Shaler

Raymond Hatton as Jeremy Dice

Shannon Day as Dorothy Petwell

Virginia Madison as Mrs. Welling

Virginia Valli as Mary Welling