The Desert Pirate (1928)
Directed by James Dugan
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Synopsis by Hans J. Wollstein
FBO's handsome New York-born cowboy Tom Tyler plays a pacifist lawman who only uses his fists and a dangerous-looking whip to battle the bad guys in this pleasant western. Along the way, Tyler's sheriff goes undercover as a bandit to infiltrate the gang that framed pretty heroine Duane Thompson's father Tom Lingham in a murder. As always, the forbidding Tyler is helped immeasurably by the presence of boy actor Frankie Darro and a clever pooch, Beans. Playing Darro's dying father is one Vester Pegg, a veteran supporting player who had been the second actor to portray that endurable sagebrush hero, the Cisco Kid. The vehicle was Border Terror (1919).
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bad-guy, bar [pub], child, cowboy, father, girl, good-guy, love, sheriff