Red Courage

Red Courage
Newspaper advertisement
Directed by	B. Reeves Eason
Written by	Harvey Gates
Based on	"The Sheriff of Cinnabar" by Peter B. Kyne
Starring	Hoot Gibson
Cinematography	Virgil Miller
Distributed by	Universal Film Manufacturing Company
Release date	October 10, 1921 (1921-10-10)
Running time	50 minutes
Country	United States
Languages	Silent English intertitles

Red Courage is a lost^[1] 1921 American silent Western film directed by B. Reeves Eason and featuring Hoot Gibson.^[2][3]

Plot

As described in a film magazine,^[4] Pinto Peters (Gibson) and his pal Chuckwalla Bill (Day) ride into town just as the editor of the local newspaper is being urged to leave by a gang of thugs led by Joe Reedly (Girard). The pair give the editor $100 and get a bill of sale for the newspaper, only to find out later that Reedly holds a mortgage of $200 against it. This they pay off and start a campaign to clean up the town. They meet with considerable opposition until they enlist the services of Judge Fay (Cummings). When Pinto runs for sheriff and defeats the tool of Reedly, everything is smooth sailing. The crooks are run out of town, money that was about to be stolen is restored to Jane (Malone), the ward of Reedly, and Pinto after several hard fights wins her hand.

Cast

• Hoot Gibson as Pinto Peters
• Joel Day as Chuckwalla Bill
• Molly Malone as Jane Reedly
• Joseph W. Girard as Joe Reedly (credited as Joe Girard)
• Merrill McCormick as Percy Gibbons (credited as William Merrill McCormick)
• Charles Newton as Tom Caldwell
• Arthur Hoyt as Nathan Hitch
• Joe Harris as Blackie Holloway
• Richard Cummings as Judge Fay (credited as Dick Cummings)
• Mary Philbin as Eliza Fay
• Jim Corey as Steve Carrol
• Mack V. Wright as Sam Waters (credited as Mac V. Wright)

See also

• Hoot Gibson filmography

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Red Courage.

• Red Courage at IMDb
• Red Courage at AllMovie

This page was last edited on 30 July 2023, at 19:51