Smashing Barriers

Smashing Barriers

1919 · 10 min · ★ 6.5 · Adventure, Action

When sawmill owner Helen Cole is kidnapped by bandits, it falls on lumberjack Dan Stevens to rescue her, but "Wirenail" Hedges is not willing to give up without a fight. Originally a fifteen-episode serial, all that is known to survive of "Smashing Barriers" today is this single reel abridgment created for the home movie market in 1932.

Directed by William Duncan · Written by Cyrus Townsend Brady

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