His Back Against the Wall

His Back Against the Wall

50 mins | Comedy, Western | May 21, 1922

Jeremy Dice, a finisher in a New York East Side tailor shop who prides himself on being a smart dresser and dancer, proves to be cowardly when he retreats from a bully who gets fresh with his girl, and his employer discharges him. Deciding to go out west, Jeremy is caught hitching the rails and comes upon two outlaws in the desert disputing over booty; they are both killed in a shoot-out, and Jeremy is proclaimed a hero by the sheriff.....

His Back Against the Wall

50 mins | Comedy, Western | May 21, 1922

His Back Against the Wall
Jeremy Dice, a finisher in a New York East Side tailor shop who prides himself on being a smart dresser and dancer, proves to be cowardly when he retreats from a bully who gets fresh with his girl, and his employer discharges him. Deciding to go out west, Jeremy is caught hitching the rails and comes upon two outlaws in the desert disputing over booty; they are both killed in a shoot-out, and Jeremy is proclaimed a hero by the sheriff.....
Producers Goldwyn Pictures Corporation
Original title His Back Against the Wall
Directors Rowland V. Lee
Writers John Frederick, Julien Josephson

Cast

Raymond Hatton

as Jeremy Dice

Virginia Valli

as Mary Welling

Will Walling

as Sheriff Lawrence

Shannon Day

as Dorothy Petwell

J. Gordon Russell

as Bronc Lewis

W.H. Bainbridge

as Henry Welling

Virginia Madison

as Mrs. Welling

Fred Kohler

as Arizona Pete

Dudley Hendricks

as Dr. Farley

Jack Curtis

as Lew Shaler