Hands Up!
Cast & Crew
Tod Browning
Wilfred Lucas
Colleen Moore
Monte Blue
Beatrice Van
Rhea Haynes
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Synopsis
Railroad president John Houston, along with his daughter Marjorie and his fiancée, Elinor Craig, are aboard the express train when it is held up by a gang of outlaws. Outlaw Dan Tracy is attracted to Marjorie, who, filled with dreams of romance, returns his interest. They exchange rings and later meet secretly in the city. When Houston learns that his daughter's new suitor is an outlaw, he hires a detective to investigate. The investigation indicates that Tracy is Houston's son by a former marriage, and Houston, mortified, allows the outlaw to escape. Tracy then persuades Marjorie to elope with him and takes her to his shack in the hills where she is rudely awakened to the realities of outlaw life. Houston arrives to save his daughter, and after Tracy is killed by Rosanne, the woman he betrayed, it is revealed that Tracy was not his son but an offspring of his former wife and an outlaw.
Cast
Wilfred Lucas
Colleen Moore
Monte Blue
Beatrice Van
Rhea Haynes
Bert Woodruff
Kate Toncray
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The author of the story, Al Jennings, was actually a former bandit and train robber who was pardoned by President Theodore Roosevelt. Some contemporary sources give Tod Browning sole directing credit, while others Tod Browning and Wilfred Lucas joint credit. Scenes were filmed in the Santa Ynez Canyon in California and in the Hotel Alexandria in Los Angeles.
