Square Deal Sanderson (1919) DVD-R

Starring William S. Hart, Ann Little, Frank Whitson, Lloyd Bacon, Edwin
Wallock
Directed by William S. Hart, Lambert Hillyer

Print: black/white
Runtime: 50 min.
Genre: western
Print Quality: B

Square Deal Sanderson (William S. Hart) is in pursuit of a horse thief, but
someone else shoots the varmint before Sanderson can offer him a
"square deal." When he looks through the dead man's effects, he finds a
letter from the deceased's sister, Mary Bransford (Ann Little), begging
him to come help save her New Mexico ranch from town boss Alva Dale
(Frank Whitson). Sanderson decides to help the girl out, and upon his
arrival, she just assumes he is her brother. Dale is a hard one to
overcome -- he has Sanderson arrested and poisons a watering hole,
killing three thousand head of steer and three cowboys. But Sanderson is
up to the challenge. He breaks out of jail, saves Mary from Dale's
advances and brings the badmen to justice. Finally, Mary figures out that
Sanderson is not her brother, adding a belated romantic note to the
scenario. This story began life as a Charles Alden Seltzer short in Argosy
magazine.