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The Border Legion (1918)

The Border Legion poster
Directed by
T. Hayes Hunter
Genre
Western film, silent film
Country
United States
Runtime
50 min
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A woman gets caught up with a violent gang in the frontier. She must find a way to survive and escape their clutches.

old-fashionedslow-paceddramaticseriousoutdoorsynostalgicquiet

What happens

The Border Legion is a 1918 American silent Western film directed by T. Hayes Hunter and starring Blanche Bates, Hobart Bosworth, and Eugene Strong. The film is based on the 1916 novel The Border Legion by Zane Grey. The film marked the screen debut of Blanche Bates. The Border Legion was released on August 28, 1918. Following the acquisition of distribution rights by Goldwyn Pictures, the film was rereleased in the United States on January 19, 1919. It is not known whether the film currently survives. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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