The Phantom of the Range

The Phantom of the Range

NR 1928 · 63 min · ★ 7.0 · Western

Duke Carlton, an actor stranded in a small western town, gets a job as a cowboy on Tim O'Brien's ranch as a reward for beating up "Flash" Corbin, a real estate agent who has been trying to swindle the rancher. A romance develops between the actor and Patsy O'Brien, the rancher's daughter, but it is interrupted by the appearance of his former stage partner, Vera Van Swank, who claims him as her husband. He clears himself of the bigamy charge, foils a plot to cheat the rancher out of a $90,000 land property, and wins the daughter's hand.

Directed by James Dugan · Written by Frank Howard Clark

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Tom Tyler Duke Carlton
Charles McHugh Tim O'Brien
Duane Thompson Patsy O'Brien
Frankie Darro Spuds O'Brien
James Pierce 'Flash' Corbin
Marjorie Zier Vera Van Swank

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