''Overland Bound'' is a 1929 American

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film directed by Leo D. Maloney and starring Maloney,

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Jack Perrin Jack Perrin (born Lyman Wakefield Perrin; July 25, 1896 – December 17, 1967) was an American actor specializing in Westerns. Early life Perrin was born in Three Rivers, Michigan. His father worked in real estate and relocated the famil ...

and

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. It is considered to be the first all-talking B Western to be made, following on from the success of the hit 1928 Fox Western '' In Old Arizona''. Despite the drawback of the film's poor sound recording quality, it was successfully distributed.Tuska, p. 23. It was Maloney's final film as he died shortly after its release.

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A man tries to trick a mother and her daughter into selling their

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, a potentially lucrative property on the site of a future

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. He hires a man to pose as the mother's long-lost son.

Cast

* Leo D. Maloney as Lucky Lorimer *

as Mary Winters *

as Larry Withers / Jimmy Winters *

as Ma Winters *

Hal Taliaferro 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 Buck Hawkins *

Charles K. French Charles K. French (born Charles Ekrauss French or Charles E. Krauss; January 17, 1860 – August 2, 1952) was an American film actor, screenwriter and director who appeared in more than 240 films between 1909 and 1945. Biography French was ...

as Underwood * Albert J. Smith as Keno Creager * William Dyer as Boss Wheeler * Starlight the Horse as Starlight * Bullet the Dog as Bullet

References

Bibliography

* Tuska, Jon. ''The Vanishing Legion: A History of Mascot Pictures, 1927-1935''. McFarland, 1999.

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* 1929 films 1929 Western (genre) films 1920s English-language films American Western (genre) films Films directed by Leo D. Maloney Rayart Pictures films Transitional sound Western (genre) films 1920s American films {{1920s-Western-film-stub

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