Bucking Broadway

Summary

Bucking Broadway (1922) orchestrates a sophisticated domestic skirmish where paternal hubris collides with the effervescent world of musical theater. When Neal, portrayed with kinetic vigor by Neal Burns, declares his intent to wed a footlight luminary, his father (Lincoln Plumer) initiates a cynical gambit to expose the perceived vacuity of the stage-struck ingenue. However, the stratagem backfires spectacularly as the elder man finds himself ensnared by the very charm he sought to debunk, leading to a precarious romantic entanglement where the lines between protective patriarch and smitten suitor blur. The resolution hinges on a shrewd economic leverage, as the son weaponizes the father's financial investment in the production to secure his marital bliss, resulting in a witty subversion of traditional authority and a nuanced exploration of the 'fickle woman' archetype.

Synopsis

Neal intends to marry the star of a musical show despite his father's protests. Father decides to win the girl from son, just to show son how fickle are women. But instead, he lets himself in for a heart-breaking romance, for he finds the girl good enough for father to marry, if not for son. Nevertheless, the son's agility is too much for the older man. Since father has bought the show in which the girl appears, son threatens to take his wife out of the cast and lose father a fat sum of money unless he behaves. So father does.