Sam Bass receives a summons to testify before a grand jury, and not realizing that the matter concerns sheep-stealing he assumes it to concern the murder of his brother, Will.
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Frank Mayo as Sam Bass
Sylvia Breamer as Mary
Philo McCullough as Will Bass
George A. Williams as Sheriff
Harry Carter as District Attorney
Benjamin H. Kline Director of Photography
George Randolph Chester Writer
Edward Sedgwick Director
United States 30 January 1923
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10 September 1923
A rousing fusion of satire, mystery and action. Aristrocrat Ambrose Applejohn is aching for excitement.
01 June 1923
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04 April 1923
Orphan Enid White becomes the ward of a cruel man. She gets close to her guardian's wife and also to his son, who secretly comes to visit when his father is not around.
01 December 1923
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28 January 1923
Drama of two girls who married into different layers of society.
11 June 1923
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29 July 1923
A group of seven people find themselves on a ship in the middle of an endless ocean, with no recollection of how they got there.
03 June 1923
Wealthy Bruce MacAllister, goaded by his fiancée, Helen, into proving that he is a man of action rather than a pampered youth tells his estate administrator, Eugene Preston, that he is going east for a meeting.
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