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An Unwilling Hero (1921)
50 min | Comedy, Drama

An Unwilling Hero (1921)

50 min | Comedy, Drama

Whistling Dick, a hobo known for whistling classical tunes, arrives in New Orleans, Louisiana, to discover that fellow hoboes plan to rob the Lovejoy plantation on Christmas night. Their accomplice is Richmond, a guest and suitor of young ...See moreWhistling Dick, a hobo known for whistling classical tunes, arrives in New Orleans, Louisiana, to discover that fellow hoboes plan to rob the Lovejoy plantation on Christmas night. Their accomplice is Richmond, a guest and suitor of young Nadine Lovejoy, who loves the overseer, Hunter. On the road, Dick encounters Nadine, Hunter, and Richmond, who offer him a ride and give him a package, which they believe to be a new smoking pipe. After arriving on the plantation, Dick opens the package to find a pair of women's stockings. Richmond's gang of robbers fear that Dick will reveal their plot to the Lovejoys and abduct him. Dick warns his hosts by wrapping a message around a rock, placing it in one of the stockings, and throwing it through a window. It lands on the dining room table during a Christmas dinner party and the plot is thwarted. Dick is welcomed as a guest, given new clothes, and offered a job; but the next morning he resumes his wandering. Written by AFI See less

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11 cast members

Name	Known for
Will Rogers Dick Dick See fewer	Steamboat Round the Bend (1935)
Molly Malone Nadine Nadine See fewer	Straight Shooting (1917)
John Bowers Hunter Hunter See fewer	Lorna Doone (1922)
Darrell Foss Richmond Richmond See fewer	Luring Lips (1921)
Jack Curtis Boston Harry Boston Harry See fewer	Captain Blood (1924)
George Kunkel Hobo Hobo See fewer	The Chalice of Courage (1915)
Richard Johnson Hobo (as Dick Johnson) Hobo (as Dick Johnson) See fewer	Neal of the Navy (1915)
Larry Fisher Hobo Hobo See fewer	Midnight Faces (1926)
Leo Willis Hobo Hobo See fewer	The Big Killing (1928)
Nick Cogley Servant Servant See fewer	Only a Farmer's Daughter (1915)
Edward Kimball Lovejoy Lovejoy See fewer	The Christian (1914)