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Rex Bell (right).
Photograph: Silent Era image collection.
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Wild West Romance
(1928) United States of America
B&W : Five reels / 4921 feet
Directed by R. Lee Hough
Cast: Rex Bell [Phil O’Malley], Caryl Lincoln [Ruth Thorndyke], Neil Neely [Brake Martin], Billy Butts [the kid], Jack Walters [the sheriff], Fred Parke [Beef Strickland], Albert Baffert [the blacksmith], George Pearce [Reverend William Thorndyke], Ellen Woodston [Mrs. Breeze]
Fox Film Corporation production; distributed by Fox Film Corporation. / Scenario by Jack Cunningham, from a screen story by John Stone. Assistant director, David Todd. Cinematography by Sol Halperin. Film editors, Barney Wolf and J. Logan Pearson. Intertitles written by Delos Sutherland. Presented by William Fox. / © 31 May 1928 by Fox Film Corporation [LP25307]. Released 10 June 1928. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Walters’ final film. / Silent film.
Drama: Western.
Synopsis: [Motion Picture News Booking Guide, 1929, (14):295] Cowpuncher is in love with minister’s beautiful daughter and has as a rival the local bad man, whom he knows is chief of a gang of bandits. When the latter pulls another robbery, the cowboy gets the goods on him and proves to the sheriff and the girl that he is no good.
Survival status: Print exists in the Národní Filmovy Archiv film archive [35mm acetate negative].
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 28 November 2023.
References: ClasIm-204 p. 44; ClasIm-226 p. 41 : Website-AFI; Website-ASFFDb.
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