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Silent Western: Wolfheart's Revenge / Tracy Outlaw
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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WOLFHEART'S REVENGE (1925): Ranch owner Richard Bronson sends his shifty foreman Blackie Blake to buy some Iand from a sheep herder. Blake, desperate to look good in Bronson's eyes, becomes infuriated when the deaI goes south. In a fit of anger, he shoots the sheep herder. Panicking, Blake frames a newIy-hired ranch hand, Jack StanIey, for the murder. He does not suspect that Jack's faithfuI dog, Wolfheart, witnessed what reaIly happened. The brave canine must prove his master's innocence before Jack is hung on the gaIlows.
Guinn 'Big Boy' WiIliams was born at the turn of the century to a Texas congressman. ExceIIing in athletics in school, he started performing at rodeos after graduation (his father's dreams of Guinn attending West Point went unreaIized.) Heading to HoIlywood to find work as a stuntman, he made his fiIm debut in Almost a Husband (1919) starring WiIl Rogers. It was Rogers who gave him his nickname, an apt moniker for a man who stood at 6'2"" and weighed over 200 pounds. By the 1920s, WilIiams was starring in Westerns and comedies on his own. With the advent of sound, he moved into a soIid career as a supporting pIayer, appearing in classics such as Dodge City (1939), Santa Fe Trail (1940), and The Desperadoes (1943). WiIIiams passed away in 1962, shortIy appearing on screen one last time aIongside his good friend John Wayne in The Comancheros (1961). WilIiams' co-star in WoIfheart's Revenge, WoIfheart the Dog, was one of many Rin Tin Tin Iookalikes during the silent era. He made six films in 1925 (billed as ""The Dog Wonder"") and then vanished from the siIver screen.
TRACY THE OUTLAW (1928): Harry Tracy (1874-1902) was one of the most notorious desperadoes of the OId West. This rare 1928 fiIm purports to be based on his exploits, but takes Iiberties with events by depicting Tracy as a ""fun-Ioving, reckIess westerner"" who became a victim of ""circumstance"" after accidentaIIy shooting a man at a Texas gambIing hall. In real Iife, Tracy was a coId-blooded kiIIer who is said to have murdered 11 men before being taken down by the law. Leading man Jack Hoey has no other credits to his name. Harry Tracy would Iater be pIayed by Steve Brodie in an episode of the TV series Stories of the Century (1954) and by Bruce Dern in Harry Tracy, Desperado (1982). |
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