Drift Fence
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Otho Lovering
Larry "buster" Crabbe
Katherine Demille
Effie Ellsler
Tom Keene
Glenn Erikson
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Synopsis
At a rodeo, Jim Travis offers to ride a bucking horse in place of scared city-man Jim Traft, who has come from New York to learn the cattle business on his uncle's ranch. When Travis learns Traft has orders to build a drift fence to stop cattle rustler Clay Jackson, Travis accepts Traft's request that Travis impersonate him. With Travis' help, the fence progresses well, but Slinger Dunn, who is helping Jackson, threatens Travis. Slinger's father and grandfather were both killed stopping the last drift fence, which threatened to cut resources from the lesser Dunn ranch, and Grandma Dunn is determined that she and Slinger's sister Molly will stop the drift fence if Slinger fails. Although Travis catches Molly cutting the fence wires, he later dances with her at the celebration for the new sheriff. Returning from the dance, Travis finds that Slinger has wounded his ranch hand, Tony, and goes to the Dunns' to confront him. Molly pulls a gun on Tony and explains that Slinger has to pass Tony to get medicine for his grandmother. When Molly insists the Dunns will protect themselves, Travis kisses her. The real Jim Traft then arrives at the ranch incognito while Travis is off camping near the fence site. Slinger helps Jackson steal 1,000 head of the Trafts' best cattle, but refuses Jackson's payment for the deed and warns Travis of Jackson's trap in town. During the shootout in town, Travis tells Slinger he is really a Texas ranger who has been hunting Jackson for killing his rancher friend. When Jackson escapes the gunfire, Travis trails Jackson to Dunn's ranch, where he forces Molly to run away with him. Travis jumps Jackson, however, and a fight ensues that ends in Jackson's death. Jim Traft becomes heir to the ranch, and Travis promises to return to Molly.
Director
Otho Lovering
Cast
Larry "buster" Crabbe
Katherine Demille
Effie Ellsler
Tom Keene
Glenn Erikson
Stanley Andrews
Irving Bacon
Walter Long
Richard Carle
Jan Duggan
Benny Baker
Chester Gan
Dick Alexander
Bud Fine
Jack Pennick
Henry Roquemore
Jack Clifford
Frank O'connor
Don Roberts
Crew
Stuart Anthony
John Cope
Everett Douglas
Hans Dreier
A. E. Freudeman
David Garber
Henry Herzbrun
Charles Hisserich
Harold Hurley
William T. Lackey
Virgil Miller
Adolph Zukor
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Notes
The title card for this film reads "Zane Grey's Drift Fence."
