Hit-the-Trail Holliday
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Marshall A. Neilan
George M. Cohan
Marguerite Clayton
Robert Broderick
Pat O'malley
Russell Bassett
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Billy Holliday, a New York bartender, loses his job when he refuses to serve liquor to minors. He is offered a position in a small town run by brewer Otto Wurst and, upon his arrival in town, lodges at a hotel operated by Burr Jason. Billy falls in love with Jason's pretty daughter Edith and resolves to help the father and daughter in their pro-temperance campaign. After resigning from his job, he joins forces with Jason to market the latter's new non-alcoholic drink "Bevo" and delivers an impassioned address at a prohibition rally. The speech is so successful that most of the townspeople join the temperance movement, and the employees of Wurst's brewery, fearful for their jobs, decide to attack Billy. He disperses the crowd with rockets, however, and offers the men jobs in the Bevo bottling works. Billy and Edith marry and together continue their fight for prohibition.
Director
Marshall A. Neilan
Cast
George M. Cohan
Marguerite Clayton
Robert Broderick
Pat O'malley
Russell Bassett
Richard Barthelmess
William Walcott
Estar Banks
Film Details
Technical Specs
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Notes
The play was first presented for a try-out on September 6, 1915 in Long Branch, NJ. According to publicity, Cohan, in the play and film, imitates evangelist Billy Sunday. The film May have been made by Cohan's own company, which was called variously Cohan Feature Film Co., Cohan Feature Film Corp. and the George M. Cohan Film Corp. Some scenes were shot in the New York subway at the 145th Street station after two in the morning.
