Roped (1919)

Name: Roped
Genre: Comedy, Western
Released: 1919-01-03

Running Time

January 3, 1919
Release Date

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Plot.

Wealthy ranch owner Cheyenne Harry decides he needs a housekeeper, but his cowboys decide he needs a wife and advertise in an eastern newspaper. The ad is answered by Aileen Judson-Brown, as dictated by her fortune-hunting mother. Harry marries Aileen and a baby is born a year later. Deciding to gain more money and social standing, Mrs. Judson-Brown then tries to break up the marriage so that Aileen can marry Ferdie Van Duzen. Mrs. Judson-Brown steals the baby and tells Harry the baby has died and Aileen no longer loves him. Harry goes out West in sorrow, but when Mrs. Judson-Brown's butler wires Harry the truth, Harry locates the baby and discovers Aileen still loves him. The reunited family goes West together, leaving Mrs. Judson-Brown behind.

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Cast & Crew.

Harry Carey

Cheyenne Harry

Neva Gerber

Aileen Judson-Brown

Molly McConnell

Mrs Judson-Brown

Mollie McConnell

Mrs. Judson-Brown

J. Farrell MacDonald

Butler

Arthur Shirley

Ferdie Van Duzen

Eugene B. Lewis

Writer

John Ford

Director

John W. Brown

Cinematography

James C. Bradford

Composer

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Details.

Release Date
January 3, 1919

Status
Released

Running Time
1h

Genres
Comedy Western

Last updated: 2025-02-13

Wiki.

Roped was a 1919 American Western-comedy film directed by John Ford and featuring Harry Carey. The film is considered to be lost. Roped is one of at least 25 films in which director John Ford and actor Harry Carey collaborated on between the years of 1917 and 1921. Ford saw Carry as a mentor and their worked on the story ideas for several of their films together.

During these collaborations, Carey made more per film then Ford. By 1919, the year Roped came out, Ford was making 300 dollars a week, Carey was making 1,250. This differential in pay led to tension between the two.