The Fighting Coward

The Fighting Coward

66 mins | Comedy | March 14, 1924

Southerner Tom Rumford was sent up north to be raised by relatives who happen to be Quakers. As a result, he returns home a passive, peace-loving young man, completely out of place in an area where men kill over issues of honor.

The Fighting Coward

66 mins | Comedy | March 14, 1924

The Fighting Coward
Southerner Tom Rumford was sent up north to be raised by relatives who happen to be Quakers. As a result, he returns home a passive, peace-loving young man, completely out of place in an area where men kill over issues of honor.
Producers Paramount
Original title The Fighting Coward
Directors James Cruze
Writers Walter Woods, Booth Tarkington

Cast

Ernest Torrence

as Gen. Orlando Jackson

Mary Astor

as Lucy

Noah Beery

as Capt. Blackie

Cullen Landis

as Tom Rumford

Phyllis Haver

as Elvira

G. Raymond Nye

as Maj. Patterson

Richard Neill

as Joe Patterson (as Richard R. Neill)

Carmen Phillips

as Mexico

Bruce Covington

as Gen. Rumford

Helen Dunbar

as Mrs. Rumford

Frank Jonasson

as Rumbo