Honest Hutch
Cast & Crew
Clarence G. Badger
Will Rogers
Mary Alden
Priscilla Bonner
Tully Marshall
Nick Cogley
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Ort Hutchins is a confirmed loafer who spends all of his time fishing while his wife toils over the washtub. One day, while digging for worms, Hutch uncovers a box containing $100,000 in bills, the loot of a bank robbed in the next town. Realizing that he cannot spend the money without arousing suspicion, Hutch resigns himself to taking a job for cover. Accepting an offer from banker Hiram Joy to work his abandoned farm in exchange for a share of the land, Hutch finds himself successful and the farm prospering. Returning to retrieve his treasure, Hutch is sickened when he finds the box gone and in its place a note from the robber. However, Hutch makes an abrupt recovery when he is offered $10,000 for his share of the farm, an offer that forces him to realize that he has become a self-made man.
Director
Clarence G. Badger
Cast
Will Rogers
Mary Alden
Priscilla Bonner
Tully Marshall
Nick Cogley
Byron Munson
Eddie Trebaol
Jeanette Trebaol
Yves Trebaol
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Notes
The working title of this film was Old Hutch. The film opened in New York the week of September 18, 1920. Smith's story was also the basis for the 1936 M-G-M film Old Hutch, starring Wallace Beery and directed by J. Walter Ruben.
