''The Sheriff's Secret'' is a 1931 American

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film directed by James P. Hogan and starring

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, Dorothy Bauer and Fred Hargreaves.

Cast

as Jack Rawlins * Dorothy Bauer as Alice * Fred Hargreaves as Bill * Joe Smith Marba as Sheriff *

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* Monte Jones

Plot

Outlaw Rawlins. accompanied by a child (Bill), avoids a sheriff's posse by heading into a desert. The boy becomes ill, causing Rawilins to take a doctor from town out to treat him. With the help of a girl (Alice), Rawlins turns himself in to the sheriff. Bill and Alice promise to wait for him until his sentence is completed.

References

Bibliography

* Michael R. Pitts. ''Poverty Row Studios, 1929–1940: An Illustrated History of 55 Independent Film Companies, with a Filmography for Each''. McFarland & Company, 2005.

External links

* 1931 films 1931 Western (genre) films 1930s English-language films American Western (genre) films Films directed by James Patrick Hogan 1930s American films {{1930s-Western-film-stub