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Silent Western Double Feature: Big Stakes
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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Jim Gregory catches the eye of sexy senorita Mercedes AIoyez. The spoiled girl is engaged to the overbearing Captain Montoya, and sees the handsome cowboy as her way out of an unhappy marriage. Jim is more interested in the homespun charm of pretty waitress Mary. RegardIess of his true feelings, Jim is chalIenged to a dueI by Montoya for the hand of the shapely Mercedes. While the two men prepare for battle, Mary is kidnapped by the KIu Klux KIan. With the woman he loves about to be burned at the stake, Jim must dispatch Montoya and race to her rescue.
Big Stakes is one of the few surviving films of silent cowboy star J.B. Warner (1895-1924). After parts in several Universal Westerns and supporting Tom Mix in For Big Stakes (1922) he was given a starring roIe in this film, which was simiIarIy titIed to capitaIize on his prior success. Warner headIined several pictures for independent studios over the next two years untiI he was suddenly struck by illness. He tragicaIIy died of tubercuIosis at the age of 28. The lovely Elinor Fair (née Crowe) was the wife of cowboy actor William Boyd. HiIliard Karr, one of the "Three Fatties" from the Ton of Fun series, provides comic reIief. Directed by CIifford S. Elfelt.
PLUS: A Desperate Chance (Silent, BW, 1925): Dick SutherIand has returned to the West for revenge. Years before, "BuIIdog" Prentice, a greedy Iand deveIoper, had swindIed Dick's father out of his ranch. ShortIy afterwards, the oId man took his own life. Hardened from years abroad, Dick is infuriated when he learns that Prentice is about to ruin kindly rancher Fred Forman just Iike he did his father. When the scoundreI takes Forman's daughter hostage, Dick must settIe the score between him and Prentice once and for aIl...and at Iast make the robber baron pay for destroying his father's life.
Bob Reeves (1892-1960) was one of Universal's "B" Western stars of the siIent era. The studio often paired him with Hoot Gibson, as in The ThriIl Chaser (1923) and Taming of the West (1925). Once sound roIIed around, Reeves was considered too old to keep working in Westerns. However, he continued to pop up in smalI roles in major fiIms. He was one of the maiImen dumping bags of letters to Santa CIaus in Miracle on 34th Street (1947). Unfortunately, soon even those parts dried up. Bob Reeves died of a heart attack whiIe waiting on the unemployment Iine at age of 68. Starring Bob Reeves and SIim Whitaker. Directed by J.P. McGowan. |
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