A Man in the Open
Cast & Crew
Ernest C. Warde
Dustin Farnum
Herschall Mayall
Lamar Johnstone
Joseph Dowling
Claire Du Brey
Film Details
Synopsis
Sailor Jesse, shipwrecked off the Texas coast, naïvely becomes involved with a cattle rustler. Because the sheriff believes in his innocence, Jesse finds work as a cowboy, but soon becomes infatuated with Polly, the medium for fake hypnotist Bull Brooks, and marries her. When he learns that Polly married to win a bet, Jesse attempts to take her from the town's influences to open spaces, but Brooks falsely reports that she killed herself rather than go. In the mountains, Jesse meets Kate Trevor, an opera singer who moved there to help her alcoholic husband who abuses her. After Trevor drowns trying to cross a river when he sees Jesse and Kate together, they marry, have a child, and are happy until Polly and Brooks arrive. Kate and Jesse separate, but when Jesse learns that Brooks is attacking Kate, Jesse fights him. Polly shoots Brooks, but before he dies, he reveals that Polly was married to another man when she married Jesse.
Director
Ernest C. Warde
Cast
Dustin Farnum
Herschall Mayall
Lamar Johnstone
Joseph Dowling
Claire Du Brey
Irene Rich
Film Details
