The Bad Man (1930 film)

The Bad Man is a 1930 American PreCode Western film starring Walter Huston which was produced and released by First National Pictures, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. The movie is based on Porter Emerson Brownes 1920 play of the same name and is a sound remake of the 1923 silent version of the same name. The film stars Walter Huston, Dorothy Revier, Sidney Blackmer and James Rennie.

An incomplete nitrate print of this film8 out ofreelssurvives in the UCLA Film and Television Archive. The entire film is in danger of being lost, however, if the film is not preserved in the nearquick future, as the film has already begun to decompose.The film, based on a 1920 play, was originally filmed in 1923 with Holbrook Blinn who had originated the role in the 1920 Broadway production which ran for a whopping 342 performances. The film was remade in 1940 as The Bad Man with Wallace Beery as Pancho Lopez and a supporting cast including Lionel Barrymore, Laraine Day, and Ronald Reagan. ........

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