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Sky High (1922)

Sky High poster
Directed by
Lynn Reynolds
Genre
drama film, Western film, action film, silent film
Country
United States
Runtime
58 min
Rated
NR
Rating
5.6 of 10 from 16 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A 1922 silent Western where cowboys use modern inventions like telephones and airplanes. The story follows characters who ride horses and brawl in saloons.

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What happens

Sky High is a 1922 American silent Western film written and directed by Lynn Reynolds and starring Tom Mix, J. Farrell MacDonald, Eva Novak and Sid Jordan. The action in Sky High takes place in 1922 and while the characters ride horses and fight in saloons, they also use telephones, automobiles and even an aircraft. In 1998, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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