''Desperate Courage'' is a 1928 American
silent Western
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film directed by
Richard Thorpe. The film stars
Wally Wales
Floyd Taliaferro Alderson (November 13, 1895 – February 10, 1980) was an American film actor who specialized in westerns. After serving in the Great War, he began his career in the era of silent films, when he frequently used the name Wally ...
,
Olive Hasbrouck, and Tom Bay. Produced by the
Poverty Row
Poverty Row is a slang term used to refer to Hollywood films produced from the 1920s to the 1950s by small (and mostly short-lived) B movie studios. Although many of them were based on (or near) today's Gower Street in Hollywood, the term did ...
studio Action Pictures, it was released by
Pathé Exchange
Pathé Exchange, commonly known as Pathé, was an American film production and distribution company, largely of Hollywood's silent era. Known for its groundbreaking newsreel and wide array of shorts, it grew out of the American division of the m ...
on January 15, 1928.
Cast list
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Wally Wales
Floyd Taliaferro Alderson (November 13, 1895 – February 10, 1980) was an American film actor who specialized in westerns. After serving in the Great War, he began his career in the era of silent films, when he frequently used the name Wally ...
as Jim Dane
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Olive Hasbrouck as Ann Halliday
* Tom Bay as Colonel Halliday
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Lafe McKee as A Brannon Brother
* Fanchon Frankel as A Brannon Brother
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Bill Dyer as A Brannon Brother
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Slim Whitaker as Henchman (credited as Charles Whitaker)
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Al Taylor as Henchman
* S. S. Simon as Sheriff
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1928 films
American black-and-white films
1928 Western (genre) films
Pathé Exchange films
Films directed by Richard Thorpe
Silent American Western (genre) films
1920s English-language films
1920s American films
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