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178 CLASS 8— Dramas
Engineer Buckley sees the fire and stops his train just before it crashes into the oncoming Midnight Express.
A thrilling melodrama, well acted, ably directed and full of sustained suspense. 1889 feet— on 5 reels Rental $3.75
8132 Code SEFI Thundering Hoofs F.B.O.
Featuring Fred Thomson, Chas. Mailes, Ann May and Bill Lowery
Dave Marshall is the son of a big ranchman. Thru the plotting of Luke Severn, who is head of a smuggling band on the Mexican border, he is placed in a v/rong light before Don Juan Estrada, a wealthy Spanish gentleman, and his daughter, Carmelita. Early in the story, Marshall is forced by Severn's cruelty to fight for the protection of the horse Silver King. He wins the fight and the horse. Later the horse is stolen by Severn and sold for "bull bait."
The big scene is set in a Mexican bull-fight arena where Silver King is about to be gored by a ferocious bull. But Marshall trailing his beloved horse finally finds him in the arena and hurdling down over tiers of boxes and leaping across the heads of the crowd he grapples with the bull and finally throws him and saves the horse. He also wins the love of Carmelita whom he had previously rescued from a runaway stage coach. Later Severn is branded as the leader of the smugglers.
An unusual story and extremely entertaining. Plenty of thrilling action with laughs and chuckles scattered through it with a lavish hand. The cast is excellent and the plot smooth and well developed.
1956 feet— on 5 reels Rental $3.75
8136 Code SEFER The Lighthouse by the Sea Warner Bros.
Featuring Rin-Tin-Tin, Wm. Collier, Jr., and Louise Fazenda
Albert Dorn, shipwrecked oflF the coast of Maine, is saved by his dog, RinTin-Tin, after an exciting battle with a man-eating shark. Rin-Tin-Tin succeeds in getting Dorn to the beach where Flora, daughter of old Caleb Gale, the lighthouse keeper, finds him, and with the aid of the dog revives him.
Ever since Caleb had been afflicted with blindness he and Flora had lived in seclusion fearing that his blindness might be discovered and his position taken away.
Flora offers Dorn a position tending the Light. He soon falls in love with her, but Flora is infatuated with Edward Cavenna, a dapper young stranger, whom Dorn instinctively distrusts, as does his dog. When Dorn attends to the Light, Rin-Tin-Tin is always on hand to help him.
Unknown to Flora, Cavenna is the leader of a band of bootleggers operating along the coast. His henchmen kidnap Dorn and the dog so that the Light will be unprotected, and then overcome old Caleb as Flora is asleep in the adjoining cottage.
Rin-Tin-Tin breaks out of the burlap bag he has been tied in and succeeds in freeing Dorn's hands. Dorn sets fire to an oil-soaked rag lying nearby and Rin-Tin-Tin dashes off with the burning rag in his mouth and drops it into the Light through the trap door under which the lantern hangs.
From this point the action rushes onwards to an exciting conclusion. Thrill follows thrill! How Cavenna attempts to kidnap Flora, the fierce encounter between the revenue officers and the bootleggers, Rin-Tin-Tin's heroism, all have
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