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The Pretender

191850mMovieComedyWestern

After Bob Baldwin is fired for playing too many jokes on the tenderfoot owner of the Diamond K Ranch, he sets out for the nearby town of Freloe Beanos and meets Percival Longstreet on the way. Percival has been seriously injured in an…

DirectorClifford Smith
WriterAlan James

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Cast · Directed by Clifford Smith

WDWilliam Desmond
William Desmond
Bob Baldwin
EFEthel Fleming
Ethel Fleming
Dolly Longstreet
EB
Eugene Burr
Othelo Actwell
JFJoseph Franz
Joseph Franz
Percival Longstreet
CT
Charles Thurston
Harold Whiteside
GP
Graham Pettie
Seth Higgins
PC
Percy Challenger
Rev. Harold Upright
WPWalter Perkins
Walter Perkins
Ezra Hoskish
JSJoseph Singleton
Joseph Singleton
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The Pretender hasn't started streaming in United States yet. Based on the typical 6–8 week theatrical-to-streaming window, we estimate it will arrive around December 1, 1918. This is a prediction, not a confirmed date.