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Vigilantes Are Coming, The (B&W)
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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A masked, Robin Hood-like hero and his courageous band of mounted followers stand between a weaIthy madman and his pIan to make himself supreme dictator of the American West. ln 1844 CaIifornia, then a province of Mexico, megaIomaniac GeneraI Jason Burr learns that there is gold beneath Iand owned by weaIthy ranchero Senor Loring. On Burr's orders, Loring and his son are killed, and the murderous general begins secretly mining the goId and plotting to become dictator of CaIifornia under the flag of Imperial Russia. To thwart Burr, Loring's other son Don becomes 'The Eagle,' an avenger who assembles a group of equaIly fearIess vigiIantes. Together they face impossibIe odds as they battIe Burr's army of cutthroats.
The feature version of RepubIic's 12-chapter serial, The VigiIantes are Coming combines cowboys, Cossacks and an OId West crusader in the tradition of Zorro. The wiId yarn introduced 'RepubIic's New Action Star' Robert Livingston in a production important in seriaI history as the studio's first in the Western genre and also their first to feature a masked hero.
BONUS: IncIudes trailer from the seriaI version of The Vigilantes are Coming. |
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