Chip of the Flying U
movie
Released March 14, 1926
Overview
A remake of a 1915 Tom Mix/Selig Western, this film was yet another silent oater (loosely) based on a story by popular pulp fiction writer Peter B. Kyne. Chip Bennett, a Flying U ranch hand-turned-cartoonist, despite being a confirmed misogynist falls in love with Della Whitmore, a lady doctor and sister of his employer.
Cast
Hoot Gibson
as
Chip Bennett
Virginia Brown Faire
as
Dr. Della Whitmore
Philo McCullough
as
Duncan Whittaker
Nora Cecil
as
Dr. Cecil Grantham
DeWitt Jennings
as
J.G. Whitmore
Harry Todd
as
Weary
Gilbert Holmes
as
Shorty
Mark Hamilton
as
Slim
Willie Fung
as
Chinese Cook
Steve Clemente
as
Indian (as Steve Clemento)
Ben Corbett
as
Cowhand (uncredited)