Release Year: 1927
Release Date: Sat Mar 26 1927
Runtime: 50 minutes
Silent Film
Filmed In Black And White
Genre: Drama, Western
Filming Locations: Alabama Hills, Lone Pine
Studio: Universal Pictures
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Plot: I saw this film at the Lone Pine Film Festival in 2019. The movie was screened from a DVD provided specially by the Library of Congress archive. The music for the silent film was played live by a pianist in the auditorium. The movie is not currently available commercially.Smilin’ Sam Perry (Fred Humes) is a rancher who has taken out a loan with the local Shylock, Ezra Skinner (Bernard Siegel). Skinner warns him the note is coming due, but Sam is unconcerned because he has money coming in on the stage. Meanwhile, Dude Dutton (Bruce Gordon) has been cultivating the friendship of invalid Jim Morgan (Churchill Ross) in order to get close to Jim’s sister Milly (Ena Gregory). Jim wants to move somewhere else, but they cannot because they don’t have the money. Dude confides to Jim that he knows a way they can get the money. The next day, when Sam checks with the stage office, he learns the stage was robbed and his money is gone. Jim however, exultantly tells Milly he won enough money at gambling to move out. She is suspicious, but agrees to move with him. Sam goes out to a line shack on his ranch with his foreman and is incensed to find a shepherd herding sheep on his land and kicks the shepherd out. Dude, leaving town in a hurry, runs into the shepherd and gives him money to buy the sheep and change clothes with him. He herds the sheep right back to the line shack however, and is summarily ejected by Sam, thinking he is the same shepherd he kicked out before. On the road, Dude encounters Jim and Milly, and suggests that if Jim wants to improve his health in the outdoors, he shoul
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Sources: Museum Of Western Film History Archives, IMDb