Rough and Ready (1918 film)

Rough and Ready is a 1918 American silent western film produced and distributed by the Fox Film Corporation. It stars stage actor and western hero William Farnum. The picture was filmed in the Adirondack Mountains in western New York state. It is a lost film.

Like many American films of the time, Rough and Ready was subject to cuts by city and state film censorship boards. For example, the Chicago Board of Censors cut, in Reel 2, two intertitles Thats the toughest proposition booze, gambling and females and Cheechaka, a blot even among its neighbors, where men fight for possession of those creatures who where once women, eight tough dance hall scenes to include women at bar, five gambling scenes including one closeup, closeup of woman with breast exposed, Reel 3, three views of gambler threatening man with gun, two scenes of young women at bar, second choking scene, slugging scene, Reel 5, three intertitles you beast, Well cut the cards to see who gets her, and How dare you breath that name, cutting the cards for the young woman, Reel 6, two intertitles I was a fool to play square with Stratton and Silver Jack has her in my room, giving key to man, man locking door, five struggle scenes and chase of young woman, six fight scenes of men on floor where they tear at mouths and hair, giving man dagger in fight, biting mans arm, seven other fight scenes, two scenes of dead man leaning on Stratton, all but one scene of Stratton looking at dead man with dagger in chest, closeup of young woman with lowcut gown, two scenes of women in balcony looking at fight, four near scenes of Stratton with woman in background wearing lowcut gown, and six closeups of fight between men showing undue brutality.

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