Double Daring

Double Daring
Double Daring
Directed by	Richard Thorpe
Written by	Betty Burbridge; Richard Thorpe
Produced by	Louis Weiss; Lester F. Scott Jr.
Starring	Hal Taliaferro; Jean Arthur; Toby Wing
Production; company	Action Pictures
Distributed by	Weiss Brothers
Release date	June 11, 1926;
Running time	50 minutes
Country	United States
Languages	Silent; English intertitles

Double Daring is a 1926 American silent Western film directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Hal Taliaferro, Jean Arthur and Toby Wing.^[1]^[2]

Synopsis

When the bank Wally Meeker works as a clerk in is robbed, he is wrongly accused of complicity and arrested. Escaping he goes into the hills in search of the gang behind the raid. Eventually cleared of any guilt he returns home to marry Marie Wells, the daughter of the bank's owner.

Cast

Hal Taliaferro as Wally Meeker
J.P. Lockney as Banker Wells
Jean Arthur as Marie Wells
Hank Bell as Lee Falcon
Slim Whitaker as Blackie Gorman
Toby Wing as Nan
N.E. Hendrix as The Law

Preservation

Double Daring is currently presumed lost.^[3] In February of 2021, the film was cited by the National Film Preservation Board on their Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films list.^[4]

References

↑ Munden, p. 199
↑ "AFI Catalog of Feature Films: Double Daring". afi.com. Retrieved May 5, 2026.
↑ "The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: Double Daring". memory.loc.gov. January 5, 2017. Archived from the original on March 21, 2023. Retrieved May 5, 2026. Cite error: Unknown parameter "loc" in <ref> tag; supported parameters are dir, follow, group, name (see the help page).
↑ "7,200 Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films (1912-29)" (PDF). National Film Preservation Board. February 4, 2021. Retrieved May 5, 2026.

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.

External links

Double Daring at IMDb

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[1] Munden, p. 199

[afi-2] "AFI Catalog of Feature Films: Double Daring". afi.com. Retrieved May 5, 2026.

[3] "The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: Double Daring". memory.loc.gov. January 5, 2017. Archived from the original on March 21, 2023. Retrieved May 5, 2026. Cite error: Unknown parameter "loc" in <ref> tag; supported parameters are dir, follow, group, name (see the help page).

[Lost_U.S._Silent_Feature_Films-4] "7,200 Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films (1912-29)" (PDF). National Film Preservation Board. February 4, 2021. Retrieved May 5, 2026.

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