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OPEN CLASSIC CINEMA · 1494

An Eastern Westerner

192020 minUnited States

Video edition: Wikimedia Commons
Original language: No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: English.
This copy runs: 26:56
Subtitles: No subtitle track in this language

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Wikimedia Commons · Hal Roach · Public domain

Synopsis

Sent west by his disapproving father, a pampered young man falls for a woman threatened by a local bully. Helping her family turns his supposed corrective holiday into a chase through a hostile frontier town.

Cast

Harold Lloyd

DirectorsHal Roach

Historical context

The comedy reverses the idea of the helpless eastern visitor. Lloyd's character confronts a local boss and his white-hooded followers through speed and improvisation rather than conventional gunslinging.

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Harold Lloyd — Daniel Blum · Public domain

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