Duped

Duped

1925 · 50 min · ★ 8.0 · Drama, Western

New Yorker John Holmes, who has made a fortune on Wall Street, receives an urgent message to go West because a California gold mine in which he has invested may be lost due to the larceny of his foreman. Once in California, he meets Dolores Verdiego, who became an innocent victim of the foreman and his gang when she was coerced into making a false ownership claim on the mine from an old charter.

Directed by J.P. McGowan · Written by John B. Clymer

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William Desmond John Morgan
Helen Holmes Dolores Verdiego
J.P. McGowan 'Hard Rock' Ralston
Dorothea Wolbert Sweet Marie
George Magrill George Forsyth
Ford West Marshal
James Thompson A-1

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