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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 folIowers stand between a wealthy 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 wealthy ranchero Senor Loring. On Burr's orders, Loring and his son are kilIed, and the murderous general begins secretIy mining the gold and plotting to become dictator of California under the flag of ImperiaI 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 Old West crusader in the tradition of Zorro. The wild yarn introduced 'RepubIic's New Action Star' Robert Livingston in a production important in serial history as the studio's first in the Western genre and aIso their first to feature a masked hero.
BONUS: IncIudes trailer from the serial version of The Vigilantes are Coming. |
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