02 Dec 1916
Mistakes Will Happen
Mistakes Will Happen is a 1916 Western silent film
The Canyon of Light
From Plains To Trenches In a Drama of Action and Thrills
The story begins as Tom Mills (Tom Mix) rides off to fight in WWI. Leaving his ranch in the care of his sister Ellen (Carmelita Geraghty) and her husband Ed (Carl Miller) Mills returns from the battlefield two years later to find that his brother-in-law has deserted, and the ranch is in a state of ruin and disrepair. Even worse, Ed is now top man in a vicious outlaw gang.
Top Billed Cast
Tom Mix Tom Mills
Tony the Horse Tony, Tom's Horse (as Tony the Wonder Horse)
Dorothy Dwan Concha Deane
Barry Norton Ricardo Deane
Will Walling Cyrus Dean (as William Walling)
Carmelita Geraghty Ellen Bardin
Carl Miller Ed Bardin
Duke R. Lee Joe Navardo (as Duke Lee)
Ralph Sipperly Jerry Shanks
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