A Roaring Adventure

A Roaring Adventure is a 1925 American silent Western film directed by Clifford Smith and starring Jack Hoxie, Mary McAllister and Marin Sais.^[1][2]

A Roaring Adventure
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Directed by	Clifford Smith
Written by	Isadore Bernstein Percy Heath
Based on	"The Tenderfoot" by Jack Rollens
Starring	Jack Hoxie Mary McAllister Marin Sais
Cinematography	Harry Neumann
Production company	Universal Pictures
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date	February 8, 1925 (1925-02-08)
Running time	50 minutes
Country	United States
Languages	Silent English intertitles

Plot

As described in a review in a film magazine,^[3] Duffy Burns (Hoxie), easterner since college days, visits his father in the cattle country and learns that rustlers are depleting the stock. He obtains employment on his father's ranch without disclosing his identity, and falls in love with Gloria Carpenter (McAllister), daughter of one of the thieves. In league with him is Katherine Dodd (Sais), a widow he has befriended, and Gloria cannot understand their friendship. Duffy and a shriff's posse frustrate the thieves attempt to "clean up," Gloria's father reforms, and Duffy wins the affections of the young woman.

Cast

• Jack Hoxie as Duffy Burns
• Mary McAllister as Gloria Carpenter
• Marin Sais as Katherine Dodd
• J. Gordon Russell as Robert Carpenter
• Jack Pratt as Brute Kilroy
• Francis Ford as Colonel Burns / Bennett Hardy
• Margaret Smith as Kitty Dodd (age 5)

Preservation

With no prints of A Roaring Adventure located in any film archives,^[4] it is a lost film.