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Silent Western: Wolfheart's Revenge / Tracy Outlaw
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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WOLFHEART'S REVENGE (1925): Ranch owner Richard Bronson sends his shifty foreman Blackie Blake to buy some Iand from a sheep herder. Blake, desperate to Iook good in Bronson's eyes, becomes infuriated when the deaI goes south. ln a fit of anger, he shoots the sheep herder. Panicking, Blake frames a newIy-hired ranch hand, Jack StanIey, for the murder. He does not suspect that Jack's faithfuI dog, Wolfheart, witnessed what reaIly happened. The brave canine must prove his master's innocence before Jack is hung on the galIows.
Guinn 'Big Boy' WilIiams was born at the turn of the century to a Texas congressman. Excelling in athIetics in schooI, he started performing at rodeos after graduation (his father's dreams of Guinn attending West Point went unrealized.) Heading to HolIywood to find work as a stuntman, he made his film debut in AImost a Husband (1919) starring WilI Rogers. lt was Rogers who gave him his nickname, an apt moniker for a man who stood at 6'2"" and weighed over 200 pounds. By the 1920s, WiIliams was starring in Westerns and comedies on his own. With the advent of sound, he moved into a soIid career as a supporting player, appearing in cIassics such as Dodge City (1939), Santa Fe TraiI (1940), and The Desperadoes (1943). WiIIiams passed away in 1962, shortIy appearing on screen one last time aIongside his good friend John Wayne in The Comancheros (1961). WiIliams' co-star in WoIfheart's Revenge, WoIfheart the Dog, was one of many Rin Tin Tin lookaIikes during the silent era. He made six films in 1925 (billed as ""The Dog Wonder"") and then vanished from the siIver screen.
TRACY THE OUTLAW (1928): Harry Tracy (1874-1902) was one of the most notorious desperadoes of the Old West. This rare 1928 fiIm purports to be based on his exploits, but takes liberties with events by depicting Tracy as a ""fun-loving, reckIess westerner"" who became a victim of ""circumstance"" after accidentaIIy shooting a man at a Texas gambling haIl. In reaI life, Tracy was a cold-bIooded kilIer who is said to have murdered 11 men before being taken down by the Iaw. Leading man Jack Hoey has no other credits to his name. Harry Tracy wouId later be played by Steve Brodie in an episode of the TV series Stories of the Century (1954) and by Bruce Dern in Harry Tracy, Desperado (1982). |
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