The Deadwood Coach

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The Deadwood Coach
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Directed by Lynn Reynolds
Screenplay byLynn Reynolds
Based onThe Orphan
by Clarence E. Mulford
Starring Tom Mix
George Bancroft
Doris May
Lucien Littlefield
Frank Coffyn
Jane Keckley
Cinematography Daniel B. Clark
Production
company
Distributed byFox Film Corporation
Release date
  • December 7, 1924 (1924-12-07)
Running time
70 minutes
CountryUnited States
Languages Silent
English intertitles

The Deadwood Coach is a 1924 American silent Western film written and directed by Lynn Reynolds. It is based on the 1908 novel The Orphan by Clarence E. Mulford. The film stars Tom Mix, George Bancroft, Doris May, Lucien Littlefield, Frank Coffyn, and Jane Keckley. The film was released on December 7, 1924, by Fox Film Corporation. [1] [2] [3] [4]

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Plot

As described in a review in a film magazine, [5] the chief aim of the Orphan (Mix) is to "get" Tex Wilson (Bancroft), the man who killed his parents. In trailing Wilson's gang, the Orphan averts the holdup of the Deadwood Coach, and thus meets Helen Shields (May), who is in route from the East to visit her brother Jim Shields, the local sheriff. Mix is a friend of the sheriff, having once saved him from the Indians. The sheriff tells Helen the story of the Orphan, and it generates additional interest on her part. When the wedding is about to happen, Tex Wilson breaks into the church and makes known his criminal identity. Tex escapes, taking the young woman with him, and is hotly pursued by the Orphan. Going through the badlands the coach, which Tex's men had stolen, breaks down and Tex, abandoning Helen, takes off on foot. The Orphan catches him and throws him off a tall cliff. Then he makes an about face in his life and settles down to a life of domestication with Helen.

Cast

Production

The Deadwood Coach was shot on location in Zion National Park and Cedar City, Utah. [6] [7]

Preservation

With no copies of The Deadwood Coach located in any film archives, [8] it is a lost film.

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References

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  2. Hans J. Wollstein. "The Deadwood Coach (1924) - Lynn Reynolds". AllMovie. Retrieved December 7, 2018.
  3. "The Deadwood Coach". Catalog.afi.com. Retrieved December 7, 2018.
  4. Progressive Silent Film List: The Deadwood Coach at silentera.com
  5. Waller, Tom (January 10, 1925). "The Deadwood Coach; Tom Mix and his Horse, Tony, Are Starred in this Spectacular Western". The Moving Picture World. New York City: Chalmers Publishing Co. 72 (2): 138. Retrieved July 10, 2021.
  6. Jensen, Richard D. (2005). The Amazing Tom Mix: The Most Famous Cowboy of the Movies. Lincoln, Nebraska: iUniverse. p. 97. ISBN   978-0-595-35949-3.
  7. Armstrong, Stephen B., Kaneb: Utah's Little Hollywood, Utah Film Commission
  8. Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: The Deadwood Coach