The Moving Picture Weekly (1920-1921)

THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY 25 Service Page for "Overland Red" At a Glance. SUBJECT— "Overland Red." LENGTH— Five Reels. STAR— HaiTy Carey. PREVIOUS HITS— "The Ace of the Saddle," "Roped," "Hell Bent," "A Gun Fightin' Gentleman," "Marked Men," etc. DIRECTED BY— Lynn F. Reynolds. STORY FROM— Novel by Harry Herbert Knibbs. SCENARIO BY— Lynn Reynolds. SUPPORTING CAST— Vola Vale, Charles LeMoyne, Harold Goodwin, David Gaily, Charles Anderson, Joe Harris. LOCALE— The Great West. TIME— The Present. THEME— The story of a rough diamond who outwits a gang of crooked officials who use the law for their own advantage; of a true nobleman who conceals his devotion that those he loves may find happiness. Advertising Punches. 1 — The ever increasing popularity of Harry Carey. 2 — The fact that the story is based on a widely read novel of the same name by Henry Herbert Knibbs. 3 — Hard riding by Harry Carey's Flying Squadron of Cowpunchers. 4 — The novelty of seeing Harry Carey as a hobo, riding the brakes and leaping from car to car of a fast flying train. 5 — The presence in the cast of many players long associated with Carey productions, such as Charles Anderson and Joe Harris. 6 — The masterly direction of Lynn Reynolds, wizard of red-blooded drama — the man who directed "The Brute Breaker." 7 — Many humorous incidents which reveal the contagious Harry Carey smile. 8 — The presence of the charming Vola Vale in the principal feminine role. 9 — Thrilling gun battles in the hills. 10 — A sensational race between a sheriff's posse on horseback and Hari-y Carey in a Ford. CAST Overland Red Harry Carey Silent Saunders Charles Le Moyne CoUie Harold Goodwin Louise Laharme Vola Vale Billy Winthrop J. Morris Foster Boggs Charles Anderson Sago Joe Harris THE STORY ^N aged prospector is found dying of thirst on the desert by Overland Red, a tramp retaining the gentlemanly instincts of better days, and Collie, a boy whom Red had befriended. On the prospector's person they find a quantity of gold and papers purporting to give the location of a secret mine. They bury the gold and papers near the railroad tracks. After the body has been taken to the nearest town by a section gang, Red and Collie are camped near the roadbed, when an overland train passes. A girl on the observation platform notices the two tramps and tosses them a rose. She is Louise Alcarme, back from the East to visit her father at the Moonstone Ranch. Just then "Silent" Saunders, the crooked sheriff comes up and arrests Red and Collie. Saunders knows of the dead prospector and believes the two tramps could shed light on the location of the mine. They are incarcerated but later es cape from jail, while Saunders is planning to charge Red with murdering the prospector in the hope of forcing iriormation. Louise comes upon Red and Collie as they are camped in the desert near the Moonstone ranch. While she is talking with them, Saunders comes in pursuit. There is a bit of gun-play and Red escapes on Louise's horse. Louise persuades the boy to accept work on her father's ranch. Red meets Winthrop, a wealthy Easterner on the desert for his health, and the two seek out the dead prospector's mine and start work. It proves to be a rich location. The sheriff and his companions follow Collie when he goes to join Red at the mine and the boy is shot in the back. He is taken to the Moonstone ranch where he recovers under Louise's care, while Red and a number of men from the ranch go to avenge Collie. Saimders and two of his accomplices are killed in a desperate gun battle. Red at last discovers that the prospector they found dying was Louise's uncle and had left the claim to her. He and Collie decide they must give up their dreams of wealth. Louise overhears them and declares they must all be equal partners. Collie and Louise have fallen in love and as they plan their future. Red goes quietlv away, relinquishing without a word the greatest dream of his life. ADVERTISING DISPLAY LINES ''Overland Red" didn't like the jail he was in, so he left it, a tramp fleeing from the law. You should see him return to that town, as the climax in the Universal production, "Overland Red." His little world of dreams came tumbling about him. She was the girl he secretly loved, the man was his best friend. He stifled his longing without a word and they never knew. That's Harry Carey in "Overland Red." She wouldn't accept his present. He mustn't even keep her glove. But she sent him her glove later and gave him all that a woman has to give. There's a big heart-appeal in "Overland Red.'* They were two hobos. They stumbled upon a gold mine worth a million, but learned it belonged to someone else. They could have said nothing and kept it. Did they? See Harry Carey in "Overland Red." A cultured girl on a train throws a rose to two tramps camped near the tracks in the outskirts of a desert town. Later she marries one of them. The story is told in "Overland Red."