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  • The Big Game (1926)
  • Short | Short, Comedy, Western
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The Big Game (1926)
Short | Short, Comedy, Western
The neighboring town of Paradise boasts of its new basket ball team and gets the citizenry of Piperock all "het up" about civic progress when the justice of the latter town reads scornful epithets directed at Piperock by the rival town's ...See moreThe neighboring town of Paradise boasts of its new basket ball team and gets the citizenry of Piperock all "het up" about civic progress when the justice of the latter town reads scornful epithets directed at Piperock by the rival town's paper. The justice telephones old Zeke Hightower, legal light of Paradise, and the two fogies make the wires burn up when Piperock accepts the boastful challenge of the neighbor burg. Paradise plays Piperock on its own soil. The outsiders are so sure of victory that they bet their money, horses and clothes on the outcome. They disarm, dismount and begin to play ball, but the ball goes so far afield that they take their horses to retrieve it. Magpie Simpkins gets the ball and the boys pick him up and throw him in the basket, ball and all. The next score is made by Dirtyshirt Jones, who puts the ball in the Paradise basket by mistake. With the score even, they chase the ball to a neighboring ranch where it gets punctured on a steers horn. Magpie gets the flattened ball which he carries under his shirt for the winning goal. The Paradise contingent goes home in barrels lent by the Piperock Chamber of Commerce. Written by Universal Weekly, June 5, 1926 See less
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Director
Vin Moore
Writers
Robert McKenzie (scenario) | W.C. Tuttle (story)
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Updated Feb 20, 1926
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Feb 20, 1926 (United States)

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Dirtyshirt Jones Dirtyshirt Jones   See fewer
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Magpie Simpkins (as Pee Wee Holmes) Magpie Simpkins (as Pee Wee Holmes)   See fewer
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