18 Oct 1924
Riders of the Purple Cows
When a gang of outlaws put Andy Clyde's ranch house under siege, daughter Alice Day recruits college heart throb Ralph Graves to save daddy.
Broken Ways
In this story the young wife concerned is called upon to solve a rather momentous question. After separating from her husband, whom she has discovered to be a brute and a criminal, she is about to give herself to another man, believing her husband dead, when he appears before her fleeing from justice. Shall she deliver him to the law or surrender to his claims? She yields in one instance, but not in the other. Then justice intervenes.
Top Billed Cast
Henry B. Walthall The Road Agent
Blanche Sweet The Road Agent's Wife
Harry Carey The Sheriff
Charles Gorman Holt-Up Victim
Frank Opperman Road Agent's Gang Member
Joseph McDermott Road Agent's Gang Member
Dorothy Gish In Telegraph Office (uncredited)
Mae Marsh Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
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