How Baxter Butted In
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Directed byWilliam Beaudine
Written byOwen Davis
StarringDorothy Devore
CinematographyDavid Abel
Edited byWarner Bros.
Distributed byWarner Bros.
Release date
  • July 25, 1925 (1925-07-25)
Running time
70 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)

How Baxter Butted In is a 1925 American silent comedy film directed by William Beaudine.[1][2]

Plot

As described in a film magazine review,[3] Henry Baxter is bashful and fails to get ahead in the world because people do not understand him. That is, all but Beulah Dyer, whom he loves blindly. His hard luck increases when a widowed sister-in-law and her two children descend upon his household. He works days at the office and nights doing clerical work for a druggist until his health fails him. Walter Higgins, his office boss, has stolen Henry's idea of boosting newspaper circulation by giving valor banquets to heroes. When Henry recovers from his illness, he is invited to one and finds that his struggles are appreciated as real heroism. When his home catches fire, and spurred on by the desire to be the other sort of hero, Henry thrusts aside the firemen and rescues the children himself.

Cast

Preservation

With no prints of How Baxter Butted In located in any film archives,[4] it is a lost film.

References

  1. ^ "Progressive Silent Film List: How Baxter Butted In". silentera.com. Retrieved December 14, 2013.
  2. ^ The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: How Baxter Butted In
  3. ^ "New Pictures: How Baxter Butted In", Exhibitors Herald, Chicago, Illinois: Exhibitors Herald Company, 22 (4): 55, July 18, 1925, retrieved June 14, 2022 Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  4. ^ The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: How Baxter Butted In

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