His Back Against the Wall

His Back Against the Wall

Don't miss this great romance-you'll revel in its intensity and you'll wish it for your own.

NR 1922 · 50 min · ★ 8.0 · Comedy, Western

Jeremy Dice, a finisher in a New York East Side tailor shop who prides himself on being a smart dresser and dancer, proves to be cowardly when he retreats from a bully who gets fresh with his girl, and his employer discharges him. Deciding to go out west, Jeremy is caught hitching the rails and comes upon two outlaws in the desert disputing over booty; they are both killed in a shoot-out, and Jeremy is proclaimed a hero by the sheriff.....

Directed by Rowland V. Lee · Written by John Frederick

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Raymond Hatton Jeremy Dice
Virginia Valli Mary Welling
Will Walling Sheriff Lawrence
Shannon Day Dorothy Petwell
J. Gordon Russell Bronc Lewis
W.H. Bainbridge Henry Welling
Virginia Madison Mrs. Welling
Fred Kohler Arizona Pete
Dudley Hendricks Dr. Farley
Jack Curtis Lew Shaler

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