A 50-minute silent Western where love literally races the gallows clock — and it's LOST forever.
Following his mother's death, John Gregory becomes the "Eagle," a thief determined to get even with the mining company that stole his family's fortune. Breaking into the company’s head office he discovers that another robber has preceded him and killed the night guard. When he is falsely accused, Lucy the girl he loves, discovers a written confession from the real killer just before John is to be hanged and rides wildly to the jail to save his life.
Direction
Elmer Clifton's compressed 50-minute sprint.
Stunts
That horse-race-to-the-gallows climax we'll never see.
Director
Elmer Clifton
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
One of countless silent films destroyed in the 1965 MGM vault fire — roughly 75% of all silent cinema is gone forever.
Director Elmer Clifton survived the transition to sound; star Monroe Salisbury didn't — his last film was 1921.
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