Bucking Broadway

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.