''The Code of the Scarlet'' is a 1928 American silent western film directed by Harry Joe Brown and starring

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and Ed Brady.Munden p.136 The title is also sometimes written as just ''Code of the Scarlet''. A

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, it was distributed by

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Synopsis

Mountie Bruce Kenton is on the trial of a fugitive, who unknown to him is the brother of the woman he loves.

Cast

as Bruce Kenton *

as Helen Morgan * Ed Brady as Paddy Halloran *

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as Blake * Dot Farley as Widow Malone * Sheldon Lewis as Bartender * Hal Salter as Comic * Joe Rickson as Pete * Robert Walker as Frank Morgan *

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as RCMP Inspector * Nelson McDowell as Fur Trapper *

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as Fur Trapper *

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as Henchman

References

Bibliography

* Munden, Kenneth White. ''The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1''. University of California Press, 1997.

External links

* 1920s American films 1928 films 1928 Western (genre) films 1920s English-language films American silent feature films Silent American Western (genre) films American black-and-white films Films directed by Harry Joe Brown First National Pictures films Films set in Canada {{1920s-US-film-stub