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A Man in the Open (1919)
Directed by Ernest C. Warde
Overview
Sailor Jesse, shipwrecked off the Texas coast, naively becomes involved with a cattle rustler. Because the sheriff believes in his innocence, Jesse finds work as a cowboy, but soon becomes infatuated with Polly, the medium for fake hypnotist Bull Brooks, and marries her. When he learns that Polly married to win a bet, Jesse attempts to take her from the town’s influences to open spaces, but Brooks falsely reports that she killed herself rather than go.
Rated NR | Length 60 minutes
Actors
Dustin Farnum | Herschel Mayall | Lamar Johnstone | Joseph J. Dowling | Claire Du Brey | Irene Rich