A cowboy kills a man, adopts the orphan, and the West's weirdest found family is born.
In Oklahoma, kindhearted outlaw Brick Willock rescues little Lahoma Gledware and her father Henry from certain death at the hands of his outlaw band. In the course of the rescue, he kills Kansas Kimball, the brother of the outlaws' leader Red Kimball, who vows vengeance against Brick. Brick renounces his life of crime, and after Gledware relinquishes custody of his daughter to marry an Indian princess, the old cowboy gives refuge to the little girl, raising her with the help of neighbor Bill Atkins.
Acting
Russell Simpson's gruff tenderness as reformed outlaw Brick.
Production
Authentic Oklahoma locations capturing vanishing frontier.
Director
Edgar Lewis
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on Bessie Marchant's 1913 novel, one of many silent Westerns adapted from women's frontier fiction.
The 'noble reformed outlaw raising orphaned child' became a template for 1950s TV Westerns like 'The Rifleman.' Brick Willock is basically your grandpa's Din Djarin.
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