Branding Broadway

Branding Broadway
Branding Broadway
	Film poster
Directed by	William S. Hart
Written by	C. Gardner Sullivan
Produced by	Thomas H. Ince; William S. Hart
Starring	William S. Hart; Seena Owen; Arthur Shirley
Cinematography	Joseph H. August
Production; company	William S. Hart Productions
Distributed by	Artcraft Pictures
Release date	December 1918;
Running time	50 minutes
Country	United States
Languages	Silent; English intertitles

Branding Broadway is a 1918 American silent Western film directed by and starring William S. Hart, written by C. Gardner Sullivan, and produced by Thomas H. Ince and Hart.^[1]

Plot

A tough cowboy, Robert Sands (played by William S. Hart) is banished from an Arizona town for his drunk and disorderly comment. He moves to New York and gets a job as bodyguard and guardian to a wealthy and spoiled young man. He falls in love with a restaurant owner (played by Seena Owen) who has compromising letters from the young man Sands is charged with protecting.

Cast

Actor	Role
William S. Hart	Robert Sands
Seena Owen	Mary Lee
Arthur Shirley	Larry Harrington
Andrew Robson	Harrington Sr
Lew Short	Dick Horn (as Lewis W. Short)

Reception

Like many American films of the time, Branding Broadway was subject to restrictions and cuts by city and state film censorship boards. For example, the Chicago Board of Censors required, in Reel 1, that four scenes of Sands and his gang shooting up town be reduced by half, and cuts of three cafe fight scenes and, in Reel 5, all but the first and last scenes of the attack on the young woman.^[2]