Chip of the Flying U

Chip of the Flying U

70 mins | Comedy, Western | March 14, 1926

A remake of a 1915 Tom Mix/Selig Western, this film was yet another silent oater (loosely) based on a story by popular pulp fiction writer Peter B. Kyne. Chip Bennett, a Flying U ranch hand-turned-cartoonist, despite being a confirmed misogynist falls in love with Della Whitmore, a lady doctor and sister of his employer.

Chip of the Flying U

70 mins | Comedy, Western | March 14, 1926

Chip of the Flying U
A remake of a 1915 Tom Mix/Selig Western, this film was yet another silent oater (loosely) based on a story by popular pulp fiction writer Peter B. Kyne. Chip Bennett, a Flying U ranch hand-turned-cartoonist, despite being a confirmed misogynist falls in love with Della Whitmore, a lady doctor and sister of his employer.
Producers Universal Pictures
Original title Chip of the Flying U
Directors Lynn Reynolds
Writers Harry Dittmar, Bertha Muzzy Sinclair, Lynn Reynolds

Cast

Hoot Gibson

as Chip Bennett

Virginia Brown Faire

as Dr. Della Whitmore

Philo McCullough

as Duncan Whittaker

Nora Cecil

as Dr. Cecil Grantham

DeWitt Jennings

as J.G. Whitmore

Harry Todd

as Weary

Gilbert Holmes

as Shorty

Mark Hamilton

as Slim

Willie Fung

as Chinese Cook

Steve Clemente

as Indian (as Steve Clemento)

Ben Corbett

as Cowhand (uncredited)