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The Range Boss
(1917) United States of America
B&W : Five reels
Directed by W.S. Van Dyke
Cast: Jack Gardner [Rex Randerson], Ruth King [Ruth Harkness], Carl Stockdale [Willard Masten]
Essanay Film Manufacturing Company production; distributed by K-E-S-E Service. / Scenario by W.S. Van Dyke, from the novel The Range Boos by Charles Alden Seltzer. / © 6 July 1917 by Essanay Film Manufacturing Company [LP11067]. Released 16 July 1917. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The film was purchased [?] in March 1919? and rereleased in the USA on State Rights basis by Victor Kremer Film Features, Incorporated, in late 1920.
Drama: Western.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Out of the elite and civilized east into the rough and primitive west there comes a little party which judged the desert must be larger than all New York, and their trail a little longer than the Gay White Way. Ruth Harkness, who has inherited the Flying W ranch from a relative, heads the timid little band. A prim and conventional aunt and uncle and Willard Masten, her fiancé, all dolled up according to his Fifth Avenue tailors ideas of the west, accompany her. Headlong the little party plunges into the meshes of a conspiracy of two cowboys to mulct the girl of her holdings. Rex Randerson, a happy-go-lucky ranger with a clear-gray eye, steps in to frustrate the plot, and incidentally falls in love with Ruth. This enrages Masten, who joins the conspirators and extends their plot to include Randerson’s death. The girl and the ranger are caught in their “death trap” and count themselves lost, but the fearlessness of Rex in a single-handed battle with the villains saves the day. Ruth thanks him by consenting to become his bride, and an old-fashioned cowboy wedding ends the dark adventure. // Additional synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.3637.
Survival status: Print exists in the George Eastman Museum film archive [35mm negative].
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Cowboys - Crime: Rape (Attempted) - Envy - Escapes - Families: Aunts, Uncles - Fiancés - Fights - Inheritances - Jealousy - Ranches - Rescues - Rivers - Traps - Water
Listing updated: 12 October 2023.
References: AFI-F1 n. F1.3637 : ClasIm-225 p. 44 : Website-AFI; Website-ASFFDb; Website-IMDb.
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