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'Blue Blazes' Rawden

  • 1918
  • 1h 5m
IMDb RATING
5.9/10
113
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'Blue Blazes' Rawden (1918)
DramaWestern

Rawden, a lumberjack in the North woods, fights with crooked dance hall owner 'Ladyfingers' Hilgard over the affections of Babette DuFresne. Hilgard is killed. When Hilgard's mother and youn... Read allRawden, a lumberjack in the North woods, fights with crooked dance hall owner 'Ladyfingers' Hilgard over the affections of Babette DuFresne. Hilgard is killed. When Hilgard's mother and younger brother arrive in the remote logging town, Rawden attempts to ease their suffering by ... Read allRawden, a lumberjack in the North woods, fights with crooked dance hall owner 'Ladyfingers' Hilgard over the affections of Babette DuFresne. Hilgard is killed. When Hilgard's mother and younger brother arrive in the remote logging town, Rawden attempts to ease their suffering by creating the fiction that Hilgard had been a well-loved man who died naturally. But when y... Read all

  • Director
    • William S. Hart
  • Writer
    • J.G. Hawks
  • Stars
    • William S. Hart
    • Maude George
    • Robert McKim
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  • IMDb RATING
    5.9/10
    113
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    • Director
      • William S. Hart
    • Writer
      • J.G. Hawks
    • Stars
      • William S. Hart
      • Maude George
      • Robert McKim
    • 6User reviews
    • 2Critic reviews
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    Maude George and William S. Hart in 'Blue Blazes' Rawden (1918)
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    Gertrude Claire and William S. Hart in 'Blue Blazes' Rawden (1918)
    Maude George and William S. Hart in 'Blue Blazes' Rawden (1918)
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    William S. Hart
    William S. Hart
    • Blue Blazes Rawden
    Maude George
    Maude George
    • Babette DuFresne
    Robert McKim
    Robert McKim
    • 'Ladyfingers' Hilgard
    Gertrude Claire
    Gertrude Claire
    • Mother Hilgard
    Robert Gordon
    • Eric Hilgard
    Jack Hoxie
    Jack Hoxie
    • Joe La Barge
    • (as Hart Hoxie)
    • Director
      • William S. Hart
    • Writer
      • J.G. Hawks
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    • Trivia
      Filmed in 1917 but not released until 1918.
    • Connections
      Remake of Keno Bates, Liar (1915)

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    Blue Blazes Rawden (1918)

    ** (out of 4)

    A rather bizarre remake of Hart's very own HELL'S HINGES has the Western location changed to the mountains and his cowboy changed to a lumberjack. In the film Hart plays Blue Blazes Rawden, a tough lumberjack who ends up killing a man (Robert McKim) over an Indian girl (Maude George). Things take a tricky turn when the dead man's mother and brother come to see him and Hart starts to feel guilty. He decides to tell the family that their son was a great man and he warns those around him not to let them know the truth about who killed him. I was really surprised to see how much plot this thing stole from HELL'S HINGES and it's so much so that you can easily call this a remake. There's even a card game here where Hart gets taken advantage of and has his weapon stole in the same fashion as what was used in THE SILENT MAN. As you can tell, there's really nothing here too original and changing the setting to the mountains really doesn't work either as most of the time everything is so over the top that you can't help but laugh. This includes Hart's performance in a way. He's certain strong enough for the part but there are a couple scenes that he goes so far over the top that I found myself laughing. This here adds some minor charm but I doubt this was the effect the filmmakers were going for. There are a couple good fight sequences and a few nice visuals but none of this is able to overshadow the flaws. I'm really not sure why Hart's screenplay followed the previous films so closely but it was a mistake and it doesn't help that HELL'S HINGES was so incredibly good because there's just no way this film could live up to it.
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    • Mar 3, 2010

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    • Release date
      • February 1, 1918 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • None
    • Also known as
      • Blå Bläsen
    • Filming locations
      • Felton, California, USA
    • Production companies
      • Artcraft Pictures Corporation
      • William S. Hart Productions
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      1 hour 5 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Sound mix
      • Silent
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.33 : 1

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