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The Border Legion (1924)

The Border Legion poster
Directed by
William K. Howard
Genre
Western film, silent film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 10m
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A cowboy is wrongly accused of murder and saved by the leader of an outlaw gang. When the gang kidnaps a young woman, the cowboy decides to help her escape.

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What happens

The Border Legion is a lost 1924 American silent Western film directed by William K. Howard and starring Antonio Moreno and Helene Chadwick. Written by George C. Hull and based on the 1916 novel The Border Legion by Zane Grey, the film is about a cowboy who is wrongly accused of murder and is rescued by the leader of a band of Idaho outlaws known as the Border Legion. When the outlaws kidnap a young woman, the cowboy knows that he must help the woman escape. The film premiered on October 19, 1924 in New York City and was released in the United States on November 24, 1924 by Paramount Pictures. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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