The Vagabond Trail | |
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Directed by | William A. Wellman |
Written by | Doty Hobart (writer) |
Based on | Donnegan by George Owen Baxter |
Produced by | Willam Fox |
Starring |
Buck Jones Marian Nixon |
Cinematography | Joseph H. August |
Distributed by | Fox Film Corporation |
Release date |
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Running time | 50 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
The Vagabond Trail is a lost 1924 American silent Western film directed by William A. Wellman and produced and distributed by the Fox Film Corporation. [1]
The film is based on the 1923 novel Donnegan by George Owen Baxter (aka Max Brand). [2] [3]
As described in a film magazine review, [4] while playing with his younger brother Donnegan, Lord Nick is the cause of his injury and, when he learns that the youngster may die, he leaves home and becomes a vagabond. However, the boy does not die, and when he becomes older he sets out to find his older brother. He has several thrilling encounters, among which is one with a bully who shoots and wounds Donnegan rather severely. It develops after the shooting that the man who committed the crime is the brother for whom he had been searching. After a reconciliation, there is happiness among the parties.
With no prints of The Vagabond Trail located in any film archives, [5] it is a lost film.
The Vagabond Trail | |
---|---|
Directed by | William A. Wellman |
Written by | Doty Hobart (writer) |
Based on | Donnegan by George Owen Baxter |
Produced by | Willam Fox |
Starring |
Buck Jones Marian Nixon |
Cinematography | Joseph H. August |
Distributed by | Fox Film Corporation |
Release date |
|
Running time | 50 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
The Vagabond Trail is a lost 1924 American silent Western film directed by William A. Wellman and produced and distributed by the Fox Film Corporation. [1]
The film is based on the 1923 novel Donnegan by George Owen Baxter (aka Max Brand). [2] [3]
As described in a film magazine review, [4] while playing with his younger brother Donnegan, Lord Nick is the cause of his injury and, when he learns that the youngster may die, he leaves home and becomes a vagabond. However, the boy does not die, and when he becomes older he sets out to find his older brother. He has several thrilling encounters, among which is one with a bully who shoots and wounds Donnegan rather severely. It develops after the shooting that the man who committed the crime is the brother for whom he had been searching. After a reconciliation, there is happiness among the parties.
With no prints of The Vagabond Trail located in any film archives, [5] it is a lost film.