Wild to Go

1926 film

Tom Tyler
Frankie Darro
Eugenia Gilbert

CinematographyJohn W. Leezer

Production
company

Robertson-Cole Pictures Corporation

Distributed byFilm Booking Offices of America

Release date

April 18, 1926 (1926-04-18)

Running time

5 reelsCountryUnited StatesLanguageSilent (English intertitles)

Wild to Go is a 1926 American silent Western film directed by Robert De Lacey and starring Tom Tyler, Frankie Darro, and Eugenia Gilbert.^[1]

Plot

As described in a film magazine,^[2] Tom Blake, on his way to get money from the bank to pay off the mortgage on his boss's ranch, is intercepted by Jake Trumbull, the foreman of Simon Purdy, the man who holds the mortgage. Tom is shanghaied, but escapes and swims ashore to a school for young women, where he meets Marjorie Felton, his boss's daughter. Jake then kidnaps Tom and Marjorie and forces Tom to state where he left the check. Frankie, Tom's younger brother, slips off, gets the check, and delivers it to Purdy just in time. Tom frees himself and rescues the young woman.

Cast

Tom Tyler as Tom Blake
Frankie Darro as Frankie Blake
Fred Burns as Simon Purdy
Ethan Laidlaw as Jake Trumbull
Earl Haley as Henchman 'Baldy'
Eugenia Gilbert as Marjorie Felton

Preservation

A print of Wild to Go is held in the collection of CINEMATEK in Brussels.^[3]

References

^ Munden, p. 1045.
^ "New Pictures: Wild to Go". Exhibitors Herald. 25 (06). Chicago, Illinois: Exhibitors Herald Company: 73. April 24, 1926. Retrieved March 25, 2024. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
^ Library of Congress / FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: Wild to Go

Bibliography

Munden, Kenneth White. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press, 1997.