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Hands Up! (1926 film)

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Hands Up!
Contemporary pamphlet for the film
Directed byClarence G. Badger
Written byMonte Brice
Lloyd Corrigan
Story byReggie Morris
Produced byJesse L. Lasky
Adolph Zukor
StarringRaymond Griffith
Virginia Lee Corbin
Charles K. French
Marian Nixon
CinematographyH. Kinley Martin
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release date
  • January 14, 1926 (1926-01-14)
Running time
70 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)

Hands Up! is a 1926 American silent comedy film directed by Clarence Badger, co-written by Monte Brice and Lloyd Corrigan, and starring Raymond Griffith, one of the great silent movie comedians. The film features fictional incidents involving actual historical figures such as Abraham Lincoln, Brigham Young, and Sitting Bull.

Plot

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The full film

As described in a film magazine review,[1] during the Civil War, Jack, an officer and spy for Confederate States Army, attempts to secure a Union gold mine that had been discovered by Allan Pinkerton for Abraham Lincoln, and keep a load of gold from reaching the Union Army. He tries to blow up the mine but exposes a richer vein of gold. He is caught and about to be hanged when he is saved by two daughters of the mine owner. Jack grabs two guns and successfully holds up the gang when word arrives that the war has been declared over. Jack then follows Brigham Young's example and starts for Salt Lake City so that he can marry both daughters. Along the way, while engaging in lovemaking with the young women, the stage coach is shot full of arrows, which he describes as "bee stings."

Cast

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Preservation

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In 2005, this film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".[2][3]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Campbell, William (January 16, 1926), "Pre-Release Review of Features: Hands Up!", Motion Picture News, 33 (3), New York City, New York: Motion Picture News, Inc.: 300, retrieved January 12, 2023 Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  2. ^ "Librarian of Congress Adds 25 Films to National Film Registry". Library of Congress. Retrieved April 30, 2020.
  3. ^ "Complete National Film Registry Listing". Library of Congress. Retrieved April 30, 2020.
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