According to stunt man Cliff Lyons, who plays a minor role as a coffee-shop owner in Across the Plains, producer/writer/director Robert J. Horner was sans either one or both legs and the left eye, the victim of an automobile accident. These handicaps, however, did not stop him from churning out an endless stream of badly photographed oaters like Across the Plains, which seems filmed off the cuff. Pawnee Bill Jr., the hero, was in reality Ted Wells, a former star of Universal also-ran Westerns, appearing here opposite his real-life wife, Martha Barclay, who plays a kindhearted saloon girl described by an intertitle as "one of Broadway's leftovers -- still playing the game."
Across the Plains (1928)
Directed by Robert J. Horner
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