Trifling with Honor

1923 film by Harry A. Pollard

May 28, 1923 (1923-05-28)

Running time

8 reelsCountryUnited StatesLanguageSilent (English intertitles)

Trifling with Honor is a 1923 American silent crime drama film directed by Harry A. Pollard and starring Rockliffe Fellowes and Fritzi Ridgeway. It was produced and distributed by Universal Pictures under their Jewel banner. It was also known as His Good Name from the short story source material by William Slavens McNutt.^[1]^[2]

Cast

Rockliffe Fellowes as Gas Pipe Kid / Bat Shugrue
Fritzi Ridgeway as Ida Hunt
Buddy Messinger as Jimmy Hunt
Hayden Stevenson as Kelsey Lewis
Emmett King as Judge Drury
William Welsh as Warden
Fred R. Stanton as Lute Clotz (credited as Frederick Stanton)
William Robert Daly as The Kid's Father
Jim Farley as Murray Jessop
Sidney De Gray as Dud Adams
John Hatton as Jimmy, 8 years old
Mike Gaffner as Landlord

Preservation

While Trifling with Honor is a lost film,^[3] a trailer for this film survives at the Library of Congress.^[4]

References

^ The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: Trifling with Honor
^ Progressive Silent Film List: Trifling with Honor at silentera.com
^ The Library of Congress/FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Trifling with Honor
^ [trailer] Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress, p. 189, c.1978 by the American Film Institute