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unusual facts about On the Banks of the Wabash


Man on the Flying Trapeze

At the start of the film, two burglars, played by Tammany Young and Walter Brennan(!), break into Ambrose's cellar late at night, get drunk on his homemade applejack, and start singing "On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away"; Ambrose is forced to handle the situation, and he winds up being arrested for distilling liquor without a license.


Madge Evans

At 14, she was the star of J. Stuart Blackton's rural melodrama On the Banks of the Wabash (1923).


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