''Dangerous Love'' is a 1920 American silent

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film based on the 1917 novel ''Ben Warman'' by

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, who would later become a congressman for Wyoming. The film was directed by Charles Bartlett, and stars

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, Ruth King, Jack Richardson, and

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. The movie was shot at the Lakeside Studios in

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. The feature had previously been announced under several titles before its release, including ''The Vanishing Strain'', ''Ben Warman'', ''A Good Bad Man'', and ''Broken Promises''.

Synopsis

Ben Warman, a likable boy with a proclivity for gambling and fighting, alienates the owner of a saloon in a Western mining town by helping a girl remove her drunken father from the premises. In so doing he makes a friend of the Woman, a young school teacher who makes Ben promise to give up his vices. Their romance is endangered, however, by the arrival of an Eastern girl, who takes a fancy to Ben, and her brother, who falls for the schoolteacher. The Easterners see that the teacher gets false reports of the cause of Ben's fights, and the schoolteacher leaves for the East to study music. The saloon owner, enlisting the aid of an adventuress, hatches a plan to defraud Ben of a mine claim, but the school teacher returns in time to foil the scheme and be reunited with Ben.''Motion Picture News'' (1920)

Cast

as Ben Warman *

as The Woman * Ruth King as The Other Woman *

as The Father *

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as Gerald Lorimer * William Lion West as Cafe Owner * Jack Richardson as Half-Breed * Verne Layton as The Editor * William Welsh * Zelma Edwards

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* * {{Tcmdb title, id=553732, title=Dangerous Love 1920 films 1920 Western (genre) films Films based on American novels Films directed by Charles Bartlett American black-and-white films Films shot in Colorado Silent American Western (genre) films Films based on Western (genre) novels 1920s American films