A 50-minute fever dream where winning a horse race becomes murder and fugitive chaos. Silent cinema hits different.
Hotheaded Jeff De Croteau wins a horserace, shoots a poor loser who has insulted him and escapes across the state line.
Acting
Frank Mayo's eyes do EVERYTHING. Silent era MVP.
Direction
Paton crams a feature's worth of plot into 50 minutes.
Director
Stuart Paton
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Stuart Paton was Universal's go-to director for fast-cheap programmers, often shot in under a week.
This is pure 'lawless Northwoods' genre that evaporated once the Hays Code arrived—no redemption required, just consequences.
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