In the Days of Buffalo Bill

In the Days of Buffalo Bill is a 1922 American silent Western film serial directed by Edward Laemmle. The film, which consisted of 18 episodes, is currently classified as lost.

Cast



 * Art Acord as Art Taylor
 * Duke R. Lee as Buffalo Bill Cody
 * George A. Williams as Calvert Carter
 * Jay Morley as Lambert Ashley
 * Otto Nelson as Alden Carter
 * Pat Harmon as Gaspard
 * Jim Corey as Quantrell
 * Burton Law as Allen Pinkerton (as Burton C. Law)
 * William De Vaull as Edwin M. Stanton (as William P. Devaull)
 * Joel Day as Abraham Lincoln
 * J. Herbert Frank as Abraham Lincoln
 * Clark Comstock as Thomas C. Durant
 * Charles Colby as William H. Seward
 * Joseph Hazelton as Gideon Welles (as Joe Hazleton)
 * John W. Morris as Gen. U. S. Grant
 * Lafe McKee as Gen. Robert E. Lee (as Lafayette McKee)
 * G.B. Philips as Montgomery Blair
 * Tex Driscoll as Gen. U.S. Grant (as John W. Morris)
 * Harry Myers as Andrew Johnson (as Henry Myers)
 * Ruth Royce as Aimee Lenard
 * Chief Lightheart as Sitting Bull
 * William Knight as Jack Casement
 * Elsie Greeson as Louise Frederici
 * Buck Connors as Hank Tabor
 * Millard K. Wilson as Tim O'Mara (as M.K. Wilson)
 * William F. Moran as John Wilkes Booth (as William Moran)
 * Silver Tip Baker as Gen. Grenville M. Dodge (as Silvertip Baker)
 * Charles Newton as Maj. North
 * Alfred Hollingsworth as Chief Justice Chase
 * Lester Cuneo
 * Marion Feducha as Andrew Johnson as a boy
 * Helen Farnum (uncredited)
 * Joe Miller (uncredited)
 * Dorothy Wood (uncredited)

Litigation over name "Buffalo Bill"
The corporation founded by William F. Cody, the actual Buffalo Bill, and two partners in 1913, which made a film of his wild west exploits, The Adventures of Buffalo Bill (1917), brought a suit in federal court in Colorado seeking an injunction to prevent the 1922 film serial from using the name "Buffalo Bill" and his likeness in any advertising. Applying the law of unfair competition, the court dismissed the suit noting that the name, which at best had only a common law trademark, had acquired a secondary meaning regarding the American West which had lost its exclusivity from being used in several plays without challenge, and that the theater-going public could readily distinguish between the films.

Chapter titles

 * 1) Bonds of Steel
 * 2) In the Enemy's Hands
 * 3) The Spy
 * 4) The Sword of Grant and Lee
 * 5) The Man of the Ages
 * 6) Prisoners of the Sioux
 * 7) Shackles of Fate
 * 8) The Last Shot
 * 9) From Tailor to President
 * 10) Empire Builders
 * 11) Perils of the Plains
 * 12) The Hand of Justice
 * 13) Trails of Peril
 * 14) The Scarlet Doom
 * 15) Men of Steel
 * 16) The Brink of Eternity
 * 17) A Race to the Finish
 * 18) Driving the Golden Spike