{{short description|1926 film}} {{Use American English|date=September 2021}} {{Use mdy dates|date=September 2020}} {{Infobox film | name = My Own Pal | image = My Own Pal poster.jpg | caption = Theatrical release poster | director = John G. Blystone | producer = | screenplay = Lillie Hayward | starring = Tom Mix<br />Olive Borden<br />Tom Santschi<br />Virginia Marshall<br />Ben Bard<br />William Colvin | cinematography = Daniel B. Clark | studio = Fox Film Corporation | distributor = Fox Film Corporation | released = {{Film date|1926|2|28}} | runtime = 60 minutes | country = United States | language = Silent (English intertitles) }}
'''''My Own Pal''''' is a 1926 American silent Western film directed by John G. Blystone and written by Lillie Hayward. The film stars Tom Mix, Olive Borden, Tom Santschi, Virginia Marshall, Ben Bard, and William Colvin. The film was released on February 28, 1926, by Fox Film Corporation.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/497601/my-own-pal|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210922210601/https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/497601/my-own-pal|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 22, 2021|title=My Own Pal (1926) - Overview - TCM.com|work=Turner Classic Movies|access-date=October 22, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=65048|title=My Own Pal|work=afi.com|accessdate=October 22, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.allmovie.com/movie/my-own-pal-v103392/cast-crew|title=My Own Pal (1926) - John G. Blystone - Cast and Crew - AllMovie|work=AllMovie|accessdate=October 22, 2015}}</ref>
==Plot== As described in a film magazine review,<ref name="EH">{{cite journal |last= |first= |title=New Pictures: ''My Own Pal'' |journal=Exhibitors Herald |volume=24 |issue=8 |pages=69 |publisher=Exhibitors Herald Co. |date=6 February 1926 |location=Chicago |url=https://archive.org/details/exhibitorsherald24unse/page/n1108/mode/1up |accessdate=14 March 2023}} {{Source-attribution}}</ref> Tom O'Hara, a young rancher, adopts Jill, a child of the circus, and takes her to a city. There he becomes a hero through the rescue of the police chief's daughter Alice Deering in a runaway automobile. The chief makes him a motorcycle policeman. In this capacity he captures a gang of desperadoes and, after a period of courtship, weds the chief's daughter.
==Cast== * Tom Mix as Tom O'Hara * Olive Borden as Alice Deering * Tom Santschi as August Deering * Virginia Marshall as Jill * Ben Bard as Baxter Barton * William Colvin as Jud McIntire * Virginia Warwick as Molly * Jay Hunt as Clown * Hedda Nova as Mrs. Jud McIntire * Tom McGuire as Pat McQuire * Helen Lynch as Trixie Tremaine * Jack Rollens as Slippery Sam
==Preservation== With no prints of ''My Own Pal'' located in any film archives, it is a lost film.<ref>[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/M/MyOwnPal1926.html Progressive Silent Film List: ''My Own Pal''] at silentera.com</ref>
==See also== * 1937 Fox vault fire * Tom Mix filmography
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== {{commons category|My Own Pal}} * {{IMDb title|0017188|My Own Pal}}
{{John G. Blystone}}
Category:1926 films Category:Fox Film films Category:English-language Western (genre) films Category:1926 Western (genre) films Category:Films directed by John G. Blystone Category:American black-and-white films Category:1926 lost films Category:1926 English-language films Category:1926 American films Category:Lost American silent Western (genre) films
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