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The Desperate Hero

9.019201h NRMovieComedyDrama

Henry Baird, a young newspaperman with a second-hand car but little money, decides to raffle off the car at a county picnic, so that he can take out his sweetheart, Mabel Darrow, the daughter of a wealthy businessman. However, as soon as…

DirectorWesley Ruggles
WritersZelda Crosby·Edgar Franklin
ProducerLewis J. Selznick

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Cast · Directed by Wesley Ruggles

OMOwen Moore
Owen Moore
Henry Baird
GHGloria Hope
Gloria Hope
Mabel Darrow
EKEmmett King
Emmett King
Philip Darrow
RMRube Miller
Rube Miller
Alan Moss
AHArthur Hoyt
Arthur Hoyt
Whitty
CACharles Arling
Charles Arling
Joseph Plant
NCNell Craig
Nell Craig
Evelyn Plant
VC
Virginia Caldwell
Dorothy Kind
TRTom Ricketts
Tom Ricketts
Butler

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The Desperate Hero hasn't started streaming in Australia yet. Based on the typical 6–8 week theatrical-to-streaming window, we estimate it will arrive around July 26, 1920. This is a prediction, not a confirmed date.