Sheriff George Stanley is tracking horse thief Robert Thornby. They meet and Thornby shoots Stanley, restrains him with his own handcuffs, steals his horse and leaves him for dead in the desert. Thornby makes his way to a shack where he finds his horse and Edna Stanley, the daughter of the horse thief in this western from Rollin Sturgeon's unit at Vitagraph.
Almost every production company produced westerns; they were cheap and popular. Vitagraph's western unit had a small stock company and produced a lot of short films that would later become the sort of movie that fans would call B westerns; the villains were often Mexicans and the plots were simple and suitable for the short length of these movies. This, although not a particularly distinguished example of the genre -- frankly, I think few of the Vitagraph westerns were -- is watchable.
A good copy with the original toning effects has been posted to the Eye Institute site on Youtube.
Almost every production company produced westerns; they were cheap and popular. Vitagraph's western unit had a small stock company and produced a lot of short films that would later become the sort of movie that fans would call B westerns; the villains were often Mexicans and the plots were simple and suitable for the short length of these movies. This, although not a particularly distinguished example of the genre -- frankly, I think few of the Vitagraph westerns were -- is watchable.
A good copy with the original toning effects has been posted to the Eye Institute site on Youtube.
