Beating the Game (1921 Western film)
| Beating the Game | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Lee Kohlmar |
| Written by | Robert Dillon Evelyn McKinney |
| Starring | Hoot Gibson |
| Distributed by | Universal Film Manufacturing Company |
Release date |
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Running time | 20 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Languages | Silent English intertitles |
Beating the Game is a 1921 American silent Western film directed by Lee Kohlmar and featuring Hoot Gibson.[1]
Plot
This plot summary comes from the original Library of Congress copyright filing:
Jack Collins, foreman of the Three Bar Ranch, risks his life to capture some rustlers after the bandits have raided the ranch. After a stiff battle Jack and his men capture and lead the rustlers back to town. There Jack is handed a telegram calling him East to Oak Center, Indian, to collect an inheritance a deceased uncle left him.
He arrives in Oak Center and is the center of attraction to the population. He treats them, inadvertently, to some Western heroics, when he has occasion to lasso a wild Ford, driven by an inexperienced driver, who happens to be Evelyn Trask, the banker's daughter. Their friendship ripens and Jack, upon the word of Evelyn's father, invests his inheritance in some bogus lots through which a branch line of the new railroad is to go through. The proposition turns out to be a swindle and Jack captures the get-rich-quick men, restores their money to the rubes who invested it with them and starts back home.
When he arrives in the West he has a wife with him, who is Evelyn Trask, the girl he saved in Oak Center.
— Evelyn McKinney, story, Robert Dillon, scenario
Cast
- Hoot Gibson as Jack Collins
- Marcella Pershing as Dorothy Trask
- Harry Archer as Bonker Trask
- W. Stuart McCrea credited as Walter McCrea as George Wellington
See also
External links
References
- ^ Rainey, Buck (2024). The Strong, Silent Type: Over 100 Screen Cowboys, 1903-1930. Jeffferson, NC: McFarland. p. 272. ISBN 978-1-4766-1524-0.