A 12-minute silent Western where the director plays his own hero. Hubris? Genius? Both.
U.S. Marshal James Hardeman investigates counterfeiters in Red Gulch and meets flower-selling orphan Two Bits.
Direction
Borzage directing himself—multitasking before it was cool.
Production
Surviving ephemera from cinema's infancy.
Director
Frank Borzage
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Frank Borzage would win the first-ever Best Director Oscar in 1929—this is where he learned his craft.
Most of Borzage's early Westerns are lost; this one survives only through fragmentary records and trade ads.
US
