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The Texas Sphinx (1917)

The Texas Sphinx poster
Directed by
Fred Kelsey, George Hively
Genre
Western film, silent film
Country
United States
Runtime
20 min
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man in the Old West deals with a problem that requires him to be clever and quiet. The film follows his efforts in a rural setting.

old-fashionedstraightforwardquietfrontiersimplelaconicdustyneutral

What happens

The Texas Sphinx, aka A Texas Sphinx, is a 1917 American silent Western film, featuring Harry Carey and released by Universal Pictures. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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