The Chickasha Bone Crusher

The Chickasha Bone Crusher

NR 1923 · 22 min · Drama

Kid Roberts, the champion, thoroughly beats a tough Westerner (from Chickasha, OK) who follows him from city to city, determined to get even. The man taunts the Kid, by insisting that he is afraid to fight without gloves. Finally his wife appears and begs the Kid to refuse to fight her husband because he is neglecting his ranch and family. The Kid's sweetheart and the ranchman's wife do some scheming and succeed in ending the fights, but not until the Kid has beaten his opponent with his bare hands. Ninth episode in the first 'Leather Pushers' series of two-reel boxing shorts.

Directed by Harry A. Pollard

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Reginald Denny Kane Halliday / Kid Roberts
Hayden Stevenson Joe Murphy
Elinor Field Dolores Brewster

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