Jubilo
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Clarence G. Badger
Will Rogers
Josie Sedgwick
Charles French
Willard Louis
Robert F. Hill
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Jubilo, a hobo named for an old plantation song, awakens to witness a train robbery. He goes to Jim Hardy's ranch and begs for food, but is told he must work first. Although this goes against Jubilo's principles, when he sees Hardy's daughter Rose and smells the pie she is baking, he agrees. After Hardy thrashes Jubilo for idleness and he falls in love with Rose, Jubilo labors hard. Overhearing three criminals discussing their attempt to frame Hardy for the train robbery, Jubilo recognizes one of them as Bert Rooker, a convict Hardy, a former Judge, earlier sentenced, and the man Jubilo thrashed for insulting Rose. After Jubilo discovers Hardy's horse painted to look like the train robber's and Hardy wounds Rooker in self-defense, Jubilo confesses the shooting to the sheriff, who disregards him since a prisoner had already confessed and implicated Rooker. Rose, in love with Jubilo, listens as he sings of his new enthusiasm for life.
Director
Clarence G. Badger
Film Details
Technical Specs
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Trivia
'Rogers, Will' claimed that this film was shot without a script, with the cast and crew reading directly from the Saturday Evening Post short story on which it was based.
Notes
In 1932, Will Rogers starred in another screen adaptation of Ben Ames Williams' story "Jubilo." That film was released by Fox, directed by John Blystone and co-starred Marian Nixon (see AFI Catalog of Feature Films, 1931-40).
