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both in love with the girl they are tossing about high above the awed crowd, the audience never knowing when any one of the trio will drop, or be dropped, into eternity, accidentally or on purpose.
Action Intensifies
Action in the wide open spaces, guns, fists, flying cant-hooks, fuses burning toward hidden dynamite, stampeding herds, dust storms, Indians, renegades.
Cattle and sheep men battling over grazing rights with the hero framed and jailed and breaking for freedom just in time to save the ranch and the society bud that inherited it.
Ranchers fighting oil drillers fearing that oil will pollute the cattle's drinking water. The quarrel over water rights and blowing up the dam. Preventing the bad men from getting possession of the piece of land through which the newr railroad will run.
Dangers that lay in wait for early settlers' and pioneering trail blazers: Ramsay MacKay the first expressman, transporting freight, mails and gold to San Francisco, President Lincoln's order to haul gold East for federal payrolls firing the way. Confederates are tipped off on the shipment and he thinks his Southern-reared wife did it. Implied deception. When the line is established he learns otherwise; overcoming a new and very active menace at nearly every change of scenery before he does.
Another : To escape a rap for murder the hero goes to England, enlists in the army and into a triangle, the Sergeant Major's daughter in one corner. Then the hero's old flame from the States shows up and threatens to expose him. He escapes only to find himself aboard his own troopship to China. In China he wins glory and a fatal bullet in his transverse colon but he dies knowing that his pal was the one the Sergeant's daughter really loved. The menaces in that type of movie change with each locale although retaining the same general characteristics, the action menace.
Gary Cooper as Wild Bill Hickok overcame practically all the action hazards known to the wrilds. Chief Yellow Hand, barbecuing information out of him anent the whereabouts of the ammunition train. More Indians and Custer making his last stand; Wild Bill's
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