A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2025 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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Boys Will Be Boys
(1921) United States of America
B&W : Five reels / 4300 feet
Directed by Clarence G. Badger

Cast: Will Rogers [Peep O’ Day], Irene Rich [Lucy], C.E. Mason (Charles Mason) [Tom Minor], Sydney Ainsworth [Sublette], Edward Kimball [Judge Priest], H. Milton Ross (Milton Ross) [Bagby], C.E. Thurston (Charles Thurston) [Sheriff Breck], May Hopkins [Kitty], Cordelia Callahan [Mrs. Hunter], Nick Cogley [Aunt Mandy], Burton Halbert [Farmer Bell]

Goldwyn Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Goldwyn Distributing Corporation [A Goldwyn Picture]. / Scenario by Edfrid A. Bingham, from the play adaptation Boys Will Be Boys by Charles O’Brien Kennedy of a short story by Irvin S. Cobb. Cinematography by Marcel Le Picard. Presented by Goldwyn Pictures Corporation. / © 27 January 1921 by Goldwyn Pictures Corporation [LP16077]. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The play was subsequently made as Judge Priest (1934).

Comedy-Drama.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: African-Americans - Blackface - USA: Kentucky

Listing updated: 3 January 2025.

References: Null-Black p. 19; Weaver-Twenty p. 309 : ClasIm-204 p. 42 : Website-AFI; Website-IMDb.