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Wikipedia article
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| image = Three Who Paid lobby card.jpg
| caption = Lobby card
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| screenplay = Joseph F. Poland
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| cinematography = Don Short
| studio = Fox Film
| distributor = Fox Film
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| runtime = 5 reels
| country = United States
| language = Silent
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'Three Who Paid' is a 1923 American silent Western film film directed by Colin Campbell, and starring Dustin Farnum, with Bessie Love and Frank Campeau. The film was based on the 1922 short story by George Owen Baxter, and was produced and distributed through Fox Film.
The film is presumed lost.
Plot
Riley Sinclair (Farnum) seeks to avenge the death of his brother, whose three companions Quade, Sanderson, and Lowrie left him to die in the desert. Two of the three men die, and the third is spared so that he can confess to the crime. Sinclair helps John Caspar (Love), a schoolteacher, who is actually a rich young woman who is trying to get away from her opportunist husband. When her identity is revealed, she and Sinclair fall in love.
Cast
* Dustin Farnum as Riley Sinclair
* Bessie Love as Virginia Cartright / John Caspar
* Fred Kohler as Jim Quade
* Frank Campeau as Ed Sanderson
* Robert Daly as Sam Lowrie
* William Conklin as Jude Cartright
* Robert Agnew as Hal Sinclair
Production
In November 1922, scenes were filmed in San Juan Canyon in Orange County, California. Production was delayed when Bessie Love, who was responsible for her own wardrobe, forgot to bring spirit gum to hold her wig, the prop man gave her LePage's glue, which adhered the wig to her head.
Release and reception
The film was "a first rate production", but had issues. For the parts of the film when her character is masquerading as a man, Bessie Love was deemed unconvincing. Overall, the film received mixed reviews.Positive reviews:
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On its release, some theaters showed the film with the Baby Peggy short 'Nobody's Darling'.
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