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Buckshot John (1915)
Directed by Hobart Bosworth
Overview
A sheriff and his posse shoot it out with a gang of robbers headed by Bad Jake Kennedy. The surviving robber, Buckshot John, won’t tell where the gang’s loot is hidden and gets 30 years in prison. Halfway through his sentence he “gets religion” and in order to save his soul, decides to tell where the gang has hidden its stash of gold. However, a phony clairvoyant, The Great Gilmore, finds out about John’s intentions and tricks him into revealing where the gold is. When John finds out what happened, he decides to break out of prison and take care of matters himself.
Rated NR | Length 50 minutes
Actors
Hobart Bosworth | Frank Lanning | Hoot Gibson | Herbert Standing | Elmo Lincoln | Art Acord | Courtenay Foote | Rhea Haines | Marshall Stedman | Helen Wolcott | Joe Ray | Carl Von Schiller