Black Hills (1929 film)

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Black Hills
Directed by Norman Dawn
Written byRavenal Anderson
Produced byNorman Dawn
Starring Katherine Dawn
George Fisher
George Chandler
Production
company
Dakota Productions
Distributed byStates Rights
Release date
  • July 20, 1929 (1929-07-20)
Running time
50 minutes
CountryUnited States
Languages Silent
English intertitles

Black Hills is a 1929 American silent Western film directed by Norman Dawn and starring Katherine Dawn, George Fisher and George Chandler. [1] It was shot on location in South Dakota from April 1928.

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Plot

Edith Budwell inherits her father's lumber business, but discovers that a series of fires are being started by a rival company with the connivance of a crooked foreman. She goes undercover posing as a Swedish cook in order to gather enough evidence to expose them.

Cast

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References

  1. Connelly, Robert B. (1998). The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36. Vol. 40 (2nd ed.). December Press. p. 323. ISBN   0913204366.

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