Summary

SAND

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Title: SAND
File Number: LAC-8 16mm LAC-9 16mm Beta SP LAC-10 16mm Beta SP
Color: B W
Type: Silent Western
Year: 01/01/1919
Description: B W 1919 Cast: WILLIAM S HART, Mary Thurman, G Raymond Nye, Patricia Palmer, William Patton, Lon Poff, Hugh Sackson Ex cowpuncher Dan Kurrie (Hart), assigned to replace an aging station agent in the small Western town of Condor, refuses the job upon discovering that he is to supplant Pop Young (Sackson), the father of his old sweetheart Margaret (Thurman) When Pop assures Dan that he has been promised another position as manager of Joseph Garber's (Nye) store, Dan assumes his duties as station agent Garber, who has designs of Margaret, is perturbed at Dan's renewed attentions to the girl and so manages to have his rival fired The former cowpuncher then takes a job on Pete Beckett's (Patton) ranch, causing Margaret to believe that Dan is attracted to Beckett's daughter After Margaret agrees to marry Garber, Dan tries to forget his loss by riding the range There he is is involved in a shootout with a Mexican who informs him of a train holdup Dan rushes to the rescue and captures the gang Garber is then unmasked as the leader, and Margaret, a passenger on the train, realizes that Dan is really an honorable man WILLIAM S HART plays the western hero who captures the villain and his gang - and gets his girl 00:00:00:00 B W 1919 Reel 1 Starts 00:26:38:00 B W 1919 Reel 2 Starts 00:53:20:00 B W 1919 Reel 3 Starts 00:01:50:00 B W 1919 ws ms Scene inside an early railroad telegraph office 00:29:31:00 B W 1919 ms Office safe dynamited by robbers 00:56:38:00 B W 1919 ws ms Train robbery cross cut of hero galloping cross-country to the rescue passengers,'keep their hands up', at gun point hero surprises and 'sticks up' the gang of outlaws by coming up from behindand unmasks the chief villain for all to see 00:02:35:00 B W 1919 cu Early telegraph 'ticker' device 00:43:37:00 B W 1919 ms Hart takes his horse by the leg ( and shakes hands with him ) then breaks down and weeps - standing next to his horse 01:06:15:00 B W 1919 ms Hero and heroine embrace at the end 00:03:08:00 B W 1919 ws ms Locomotive and railroad train comes around the bend 00:53:20:00 B W 1919 LAC 10 Reel 3 00:08:45:00 B W 1919 ms Boy meets girlhe drops the suitcase he's holding when he sees her 00:56:38:00 B W 1919 ws ms Train robbery cross cut of hero galloping cross-country to the rescue passengers,'keep their hands up', at gun point hero surprises and 'sticks up' the gang of outlaws by coming up from behindand unmasks the chief villain for all to see 00:14:18:00 B W 1919 ms Villain suddenly gets angry when he sees someone he doesn't like (note his 'silent screen' gestures) 01:06:15:00 B W 1919 ms Hero and heroine embrace at the end 00:21:25:00 B W 1919 ms Bad guy, very anxious to steal a bundle of money
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