Sam Purdy 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 Purdy
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
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1923:
28 January 1923
Drama of two girls who married into different layers of society.
01 June 1923
In order to save his family from financial ruin, an English aristocrat agrees to come to America and marry the daughter of a wealthy businessman.
11 June 1923
The title is also the moniker of a renowned safe-cracker, Slippy McGee, who has always managed to evade capture until his latest job, when he is wounded.
01 March 1923
A young man is bet $100,000 that his famous luck can hold out and he can make that sum in one year's time, literally starting with nothing.
10 September 1923
A rousing fusion of satire, mystery and action. Aristrocrat Ambrose Applejohn is aching for excitement.
10 October 1923
A gypsy dancer becomes involved with some smugglers in Spain.
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.
14 May 1923
The plot of this silent western short is unknown and it is presumably lost.
22 December 1923
One of Van Beuren Studios' Aesops Fables shorts
20 October 1923
Jane Maynard opens a mission in memory of philanthropist Bland Hendricks. John Anstell, son of a powerful and selfish millionaire, Michael Anstell, falls in love with Jane, to the old man's disapproval.
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