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Bucking the Line

1921 film directed by Carl Harbaugh

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ86923137 ↗
Source-derived summary

Bucking the Line is a 1921 American silent drama film directed by Carl Harbaugh and starring Maurice 'Lefty' Flynn, Molly Malone and Kathryn McGuire.

Plot

Cast

Maurice 'Lefty' Flynn as John Montague Smith

Molly Malone as Corona Baldwin

Norman Selby as Jerry

Edwin B. Tilton as Colonel Dexter Baldwin

Kathryn McGuire as Vera Richlander

J. Farrell MacDonald as Dave Kinsey

Jim Farley as Watrous Dunham

Leslie Casey as Tucker Jibbey

George Kerby as Rand Barlow

References

Bibliography

Connelly, Robert B. The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36, Volume 40, Issue 2. December Press, 1998.

Munden, Kenneth White. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press, 1997.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Bucking the Line” as 1921 film directed by Carl Harbaugh. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Bucking, Line and film.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1921, 1910, 1998, 1997—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1921. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Bucking, Line and film providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Bucking the Line”, the useful work is to connect “1921 film directed by Carl Harbaugh” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 8, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q86923137. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1921, 1910, 1998 and 1997.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bucking the Line” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.