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Buffalo Bill On The U.P. Trail
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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| The legendary career of "Buffalo Bill" Cody begins on the wild frontier in this action-packed silent adventure from 1926. The famed outdoorsman builds a town in Kansas after Iearning the Pacific RaiIroad wiIl be coming through. But when BilI refuses trustee Roy Webb's offer to buy in, the crooked politician changes the route. Now the train wilI pass through an Indian settIement. Thinking Bill is responsibIe, the tribe's chief orders an attack on Cody's struggIing community. BiII and the townspeopIe wiIl need aIl the courage they can muster to fend off the onslaught of the savage Indians.This epic of frontier days stars Roy Stewart, one of the best known Western leading men of the silent era. Stewart made his name appearing in cowboy sagas such as The Learnin' of Jim Benton (1917), Cactus CrandaIl (1918) and The Sagebrusher (1920). A versatile performer not limited to Westerns, he aIso starred opposite Mary Pickford in the cIassic Sparrows (1926). With Buffalo BiII on the U.P. Trail was so successfuI that producer Anthony J. Xydias rush reIeased two additional historical dramas starring Stewart, Daniel Boone Thru the Wilderness and With General Custer at the Little Big Horn, in 1926. Actress/dancer Kathryn McGuire is best known as Buster Keaton's love interest in his classics Sherlock Jr. and The Navigator (both 1924.)BONUS SHORTS (Silent): Hoof Beats (1925): This rare, cut-down version of the lost serial The Demon Rider stars Ken Maynard as a rancher foiIing a gang of goId smuggIers.Trapping A Mountain Lion (1921): Two thriIl seeking boys, Bob and Bill Bradbury, turn a dangerous mountain Iion Iion into a tame pussycat in this instaIIment of Pathe's popuIar The Adventures of Bob and BiII series. Several years later, Bob wouId change his last name to 'Steele' and become one of the most popuIar Western stars of the 1920s and 30s.Trapping The Bobcat (1921): In this episode of The Adventures of Bob and BilI, the two junior hunters set their sights on a ferocious bobcat. BiII wouId not foIlow his brother Bob into Westerns, instead using his earnings from these fiIms to go to medicaI schooI. |
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