Across the Plains

Across the Plains

World Champion Cowboy

1928 · 35 min · ★ 8.0 · Western

Helen Williams, lured to a wild cattle-town on the promise of a job learns that the job she has is not the kind she thought she had, and finds herself selling drinks and dancing with drunk cowboys in the saloon. She meets Jim Blake, the rough-and-ready foreman of the Bar-X Ranch and they fall in love. And face more than a few problems on the way to getting married.

Directed by Robert J. Horner · Written by Royal Brown

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