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Trigger Fingers (1924 film)
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Wikipedia article
'Trigger Fingers' is a 1924 American silent Western film directed by B. Reeves Eason and starring Bob Custer, George Field, and Margaret Landis.Rainey p. 206[http://silentera.com/PSFL/data/T/TriggerFinger1924.html Progressive Silent Film List: 'Trigger Fingers'] at silentera.com
Plot
As described in a review in a film magazine, in order to better be able to run down a notorious bandit, The Black Hawk, Sgt. Steele (Custer) of the Rangers, who has captured another bandit, Lightning Brady, impersonates him and joins the gang of unsavory characters led by Murtison (Bennett). Soon he finds The Black Hawk has attacked an official of the mining company and paralyzed his sense of speech. He sends for Dr. Deering (Field), who arrives with his daughter, Ruth (Landis), but returns for instruments and fails to come back. Instead, Murtisons gang attacks Steele and, in the rumpus, Murtison is killed by The Black Hawk. The gang captures Ruth and a young Indian woman, Wetona (La Rue), and takes them away. Steele rescues them and returns to the shack to find The Black Hawk bending over the patient, who has recovered his speech. Steele forces him to unmask and finds he is Dr. Deering. During a terrific fight, Deering is shot by Wetona. Ruth is shocked to find her father is a bandit, but finds consolation in the love of Steele, who reveals his real identity to her.
Cast
Preservation
With no prints of 'Trigger Fingers' located in any film archives,[http://lcweb2.loc.gov:8081/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.10008/default.html Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: 'Trigger Fingers'] it is a lost film.
References
Bibliography
* Rainey, Buck. 'The Strong, Silent Type: Over 100 Screen Cowboys, 1903-1930'. McFarland, 2004.
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