The Crusader
★ 10 · 1922 · 50m · Western
Veteran action hero William Russell starred opposite his offscreen wife Helen Ferguson in this typical Fox oater about a miner who finds himself up against a master swindler (George Webb).
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The Great Train Robbery
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The Wind
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Blood Will Tell
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The Paleface
1922 · ★ 6.1
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The Good Bad-Man
1916 · ★ 6.2
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An Eastern Westerner
1920 · ★ 6.9
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The Desert Man
1917
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The Mark of Zorro
1920 · ★ 7.2
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Singing River
1920 · ★ 10
Outlaw Sam Hemp attempts to induce homesteader Lang Rush, faced with foreclosure due to drought, to rob the bank as restitution. The exchange escalates into a gunfight leaving Sam and his wealthy friend, Drayton, dead. Fleeing to the mountains and the refuge of a deserted shack near Singing River Lang prospects for silver. Another former homesteader, Bert Condon, trails Lang in the hope of collecting a $5,000 reward, but befriends the fugitive and assists in filing Lang's claim when he strikes ore. On his return to town, Lang rescues the sheriff's daughter, Alice Thornton, from Hemp's gang and defeats their leader, L. W. Bransom, in a fistfight. He then clears himself of the murder charge and wins Alice.
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Honest Hutch
1920 · ★ 8
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