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Across the Plains
“World Champion Cowboy”
8.0 / 10• 1928• 35m•NR• English
Western
Storyline
Helen Williams, lured to a wild cattle-town on the promise of a job learns that the job she has is not the kind she thought she had, and finds herself selling drinks and dancing with drunk cowboys in the saloon. She meets Jim Blake, the rough-and-ready foreman of the Bar-X Ranch and they fall in love. And face more than a few problems on the way to getting married.
Cast & Crew
Ted Wells
Jim Blake
Lead
Ione Reed
Helen Williams
Jack Richardson
Joe Steward
MB
Martha Barclay
Sally Howard
William Barrymore
Walla-Walla Slim
Cliff Lyons
Chuck Lang
BM
Bud McClure
Barfly
What People Are Saying
4.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Robert J. Horner's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
4.0
“Every frame feels alive. Across the Plains is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
