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Movie Detail Name Occurs Before Title Offscreen Credit Print Viewed By AFI Stub Record The Mollycoddle Director: Victor Fleming (Dir) Release Date:   13 Jun 1920 Duration (in reels):   6 Print this page Display Movie Summary Available Formats Facets DVD VHS LaserDisk Kino DVD VHS LaserDisk Nostalgia Family Video DVD VHS LaserDisk Cast:   Douglas Fairbanks (Richard Marshall)       Ruth Renick (Virginia Hale)       Wallace Beery (Henry Van Holkar)       Paul Burns (Samuel Levinski)       Morris Hughes (Patrick O'Flanagan)       George Stewart (Ole Olson)       Charles Stevens (Yellow Horse)       Lewis Hippe (First mate)       Betty Bouton (Mollie Warren)       Adele Farrington (Mrs. Warren)       Albert McQuarrie (Driver of the "Desert Yacht")       Frank Campeau         Eagle Eye         Freddie Hawk     Summary: Richard Marshall, a bespectacled mollycoddle, meets fellow American Henry Van Holkar and his yachting party while in Monte Carlo. Van Holkar is involved in the illicit smuggling of diamonds from Arizona to Amsterdam, and when, as a prank, several members of his party shanghai Marshall aboard the yacht, the smuggler believes him to be a spy and attempts to drown him. Marshall escapes and follows the party to Arizona. There, Van Holkar discovers that Virginia Hale, another member of his party, is the real spy. Deciding that he must eliminate the rest of his group, Van Holkar arranges a landslide, but Marshall arrives in the nick of time to save Virginia and the others. After a savage fight between the two adversaries, Van Holkar falls to his death from a precipice and Marshall, proving that he is not a mollycoddle, wins Virginia.  Production Company: Douglas Fairbanks Pictures Corp.   Distribution Company: United Artists Corp.   Director: Victor Fleming (Dir)   Ted Reed (Asst dir) Producer: Douglas Fairbanks (Supv)   Robert Fairbanks (Mgr of prod) Writer: Tom J. Geraghty (Scen)   Harold McGrath (Story) Photography: William McGann (Cam)   Harry Thorpe (Cam) Art Direction: Edward M. Langley (Art dir) Country: United States Language: English Copyright Claimant Copyright Date Copyright Number Douglas Fairbanks Pictures Corp. 15/6/1920 dd/mm/yyyy LP15296 Physical Properties: b&w:   Si:   Genre: Adventure   Subjects (Major): Arizona   Fights   Manhood   Monte Carlo (Monaco)   Smuggling   Yachts and yachting   Subjects (Minor): Americans in foreign countries   Diamonds   Drowning   Falls from heights   Landslides   Spies Note: According to publicity for the film, its cost was just a few dollars short of one-half million dollars. Douglas Fairbanks injured his hand while doing a stunt on horseback at the Hopi Indian reservation in Arizona where some scenes were filmed. Some Indians appeared in the film, including Eagle Eye, a chief. Freddie Hawk, a "girl hobo" who came into prominence for walking from Kansas City to Los Angeles to get a chance to be in the movies, made her screen debut in the film. Members of the technical crew included Frank England, George W. Chapman, Arthur J. Coe and Lotta Woods.  Bibliographic Sources:   Date   Page ETR   26 Jun 20   p. 387. MPN   21 Feb 20   p. 1940. MPN   20 Mar 20   p. 2730. MPN   3 Jul 20   p. 311. NYR   19 Jun 1920.    New York Times   14 Jun 20   p. 13. NYTribune   14 Jun 1920.    Wid's   20 Jun 20   p. 7. Display Movie Summary

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