''Black Hills'' is a 1929 American silent

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film directed by

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and starring

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, George Fisher and

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. It was shot on location in

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from April 1928.

Plot

Edith Budwell inherits her father's

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business, but discovers that a series of fires are being started by a rival company with the connivance of a crooked

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. She goes undercover posing as a

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in order to gather enough evidence to expose them.

Cast

as Edith Bidwell * George Fisher as Jack Merritt *Bob Webster as Dude McGee *Aldine Webb as Lizzie McGee *

as Soopy *Roy Dow as Dick

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External links

* 1929 Western (genre) films 1920s English-language films American silent feature films Silent American Western (genre) films Films directed by Norman Dawn American black-and-white films Films shot in South Dakota Films set in South Dakota 1920s American films English-language Western (genre) films {{1920s-US-film-stub