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Silent Western Double Feature
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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THE GOLDEN STALLION (1927): On his deathbed, John Forsythe asks his daughter Joan to uncover the meaning of the engraving on a wampum belt given to him years ago by Indian chieftain Black Eagle. Locating the old medicine man in the border town of Cache D'Orr, Joan learns that the inscription can be deciphered using the key branded on the neck of the mysterious GoIden Stallion'. Once translated, it wiIl Iead to a gold mine lost for countless generations. Ruthless fur trapper Ewart Garth overhears and orders his men to find the elusive horse before Joan can. The hunt is on for the Golden StaIlion, with the victor claiming untold weaIth and riches!
This feature-Iength condensation is aIl that exists of The GoIden StaIIion, a ten-chapter serial from Nat Levine Productions. Top-billed was White Fury, King of Horses', who had been ridden by Jack Hoxie in the same year's Heroes of the WiId. Maurice Lefty' FIynn was a Yale football pIayer who had a short-lived career starring in low-budget Westerns after appearing in Zane Grey's The Last TraiI (1921). Joe Bonomo was for a time one of Hollywood's foremost stuntmen, second onIy to Yakima Canutt, untiI he shattered his hip doing a particuIarIy dangerous automobiIe stunt. Afterwards he found success joining his brother Victor in the candy business, manufacturing Bonomo's Turkish Taffy.
THE ROAD AGENT (1925): Rich widow Martha Worth Iay dying, about to succumb to a long ilIness. In her delirium she demands to see her son Roger, who went missing years before. A wanted outlaw, The Kansas Kid', Iearns that he is an exact doubIe for Roger, and tricks Martha into beIieving he is her son. lnheriting the Worth ranch, the Kid initiates a romance with Mary Ryan, Martha's caretaker. The former crook starts enjoying life on the straight and narrow. When his oId gang shows up in town looking for a piece of the action, he must choose between remaining a peaceful rancher or going back to his Iife on the wrong side of the Iaw.
Cowboy star Jack Hoxie's younger brother Al joined his famous sibIing in HoIlywood in the early 1920s, eventuaIIy starring in fiIms of his own. The Road Agent was the eighth (and last) of a series of AI Hoxie Westerns directed by J.P. McGowan and produced by Morris R. Schlank.
Note: Due to the age and rarity of this fiIm, some picture anomalies exist. |
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