{{short description|1926 film}} {{Use American English|date=October 2021}} {{Use mdy dates|date=October 2021}} {{Infobox film | name = Wild to Go | image = Wild To Go (1926) Poster.jpg | caption = Film poster | director = Robert De Lacey | producer = | writer = F.A.E. Pine | starring = {{ubl|Tom Tyler|Frankie Darro|Eugenia Gilbert}} | cinematography = John W. Leezer | studio = Robertson-Cole Pictures Corporation | distributor = Film Booking Offices of America | released = {{Film date|1926|04|18}} | runtime = 5 reels | country = United States | language = Silent (English intertitles) }} '''''Wild to Go''''' is a 1926 American silent Western film directed by Robert De Lacey and starring Tom Tyler, Frankie Darro, and Eugenia Gilbert.<ref>Munden, p. 1045.</ref>
==Plot== As described in a film magazine,<ref>{{cite journal |title=New Pictures: ''Wild to Go'' |journal=Exhibitors Herald |volume=25 |issue=06 |pages=73 |publisher=Exhibitors Herald Company |location=Chicago, Illinois |date=24 April 1926 |url=https://archive.org/details/exhibitorsherald25unse/page/n956/mode/1up |access-date=25 March 2024}} {{Source-attribution}}</ref> Tom Blake, on his way to get money from the bank to pay off the mortgage on his boss's ranch, is intercepted by Jake Trumbull, the foreman of Simon Purdy, the man who holds the mortgage. Tom is shanghaied, but escapes and swims ashore to a school for young women, where he meets Marjorie Felton, his boss's daughter. Jake then kidnaps Tom and Marjorie and forces Tom to state where he left the check. Frankie, Tom's younger brother, slips off, gets the check, and delivers it to Purdy just in time. Tom frees himself and rescues the young woman.
==Cast== * Tom Tyler as Tom Blake * Frankie Darro as Frankie Blake * Fred Burns as Simon Purdy * Ethan Laidlaw as Jake Trumbull * Earl Haley as Henchman 'Baldy' * Eugenia Gilbert as Marjorie Felton
==Preservation== A print of ''Wild to Go'' is held in the collection of CINEMATEK in Brussels.<ref>[https://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.602/ Library of Congress / FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: ''Wild to Go'']</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==Bibliography== * 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== * {{IMDb title|0017561}}
Category:1926 films Category:1926 Western (genre) films Category:American black-and-white films Category:1926 English-language films Category:Films directed by Robert De Lacey Category:Film Booking Offices of America films Category:American silent Western (genre) films Category:1926 American films Category:English-language Western (genre) films
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