Western Courage / Double Cinched (Silent) (DVD)

Western Courage (1927, B&W, Silent): Arthur Weston, half-owner of a cattle ranch, is in love with Mary who owns the other half, but the apple of HER eye is Stephen Stanton. Stanton asks Mary to elope with him and she's willing - unaware that he and his gang have just rustled her cattle and robbed the local bank. In a one-of-a-kind finale, Arthur and Mary take to the sky in a biplane to pursue Stanton's gang -- and Arthur descends the soaring plane's rope ladder to stop them! Starring Dick Hatton, Elsa Benham, Robert Walker; written and directed by Ben Wilson.

Double Cinched (1923, B&W, Silent): Happy newlyweds Lem and Polly are on cloud nine. They'd be less happy if they knew that the parson performing the ceremony is actually an escaped convict. The fake parson sets out to steal Lem and Polly's wedding presents, as the real parson tries to outrun the bullets of a shoot first-ask-questions-later sheriff! Starring Leo Maloney, Bud Osborne, Whitehorse; written and directed by Ford Beebe, Leo Malone.

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