Riders of the Purple Sage
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Cast & Crew
Lynn Reynolds
Tom Mix
Beatrice Burnham
Arthur Morrison
Seesel Ann Johnson
Warner Oland
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Synopsis
When a lawyer named Lew Walters is run out of town, he abducts Millie Erne and her daughter and forces them to accompany him. Millie's brother, Jim Lassiter, is a Texas Ranger who then dedicates his life to tracking down Walters. During his search for the lawyer, Lassiter becomes ramrod on Jane Withersteen's big spread, where he befriends a young cowboy, Venters. Venters later goes after an outlaw gang and captures its leader, who turns out to be a beautiful young woman with whom he falls in love. Finally Jane tells Lassiter that the man he is hunting is now a local judge known as Dyer. Lassiter walks into Dyer's courtroom and picks him off with deadly precision. A posse is formed, and Lassiter and Jane are forced to flee, finally taking refuge on a plateau. The only approach to their hiding place is by a set of stairs cut into the side of the cliff; and when Lassiter rolls down a boulder from the heights to block the pursuer's path, he and Jane are trapped there for life, a prospect neither finds displeasing.
Director
Lynn Reynolds
Cast
Tom Mix
Beatrice Burnham
Arthur Morrison
Seesel Ann Johnson
Warner Oland
Fred Kohler
Charles Newton
Joe Rickson
Mabel Ballin
Charles Le Moyne
Harold Goodwin
Marion Nixon
Dawn O'day
Wilfred Lucas
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For information on other film adaptations of Zane Grey's novel, please consult the entry for the 1918 Fox release of the same title, directed by Frank Lloyd and starring William Farnum (see AFI Catalog of Feature Films, 1911-20).
