The Ne'er-Do-Well
Former college football hero Kirk Anthony, to the disappointment of his father, a railroad magnate, refuses to enter the business world. Kirk prefers to coach the university team and carouse, until he is drugged during a drunken v...
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"The main attraction to the rarely (if ever) shown early silent feature is its age. After well more than three quarters of a century, it opens a dusty window to some distant (but still familiar) attitudes, especially regarding Central America, where the dispossessed heir of the film's title ("Kirk Anthony: football coach and man about town") ends up after an unfortunate encounter with a crafty thief. At ten reels the film was extraordinarily long for its day, with most of its running time spent in a complicated romance between our plucky hero and the influential, freethinking wif..."
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A copy of the film is held at the Library of Congress.
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Former college football hero Kirk Anthony, to the disappointment of his father, a railroad magnate, refuses to enter the business world. Kirk prefers to coach the university team and carouse, until he is drugged during a drunken v...