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directed by William Bertram and starring

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and Charles Dudley.Connelly p.402

Cast

* Joe Ryan as Sheriff Dick Ranger *

as Betty Marsh *

as Gerald Marsh * Walter Rodgers as Stephen Marsh * Charles Dudley as'Doc' Dreamer *

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as Red Feather *

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as Rudolph Myers

References

Bibliography

* Connelly, Robert B. ''The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36, Volume 40, Issue 2''. December Press, 1998. * 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

* 1922 films 1922 Western (genre) films 1920s English-language films American silent serial films Silent American Western (genre) films American black-and-white films Films directed by William Bertram Vitagraph Studios films 1920s American films English-language Western (genre) films {{silent-film-stub