Flashing Spurs
{{short description|1924 film}}
{{Use American English|date=September 2021}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2020}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Flashing Spurs
| image = Flashing Spurs (1924) lobby card.jpg
| caption = Lobby card
| director = B. Reeves Eason
| producer = Jesse J. Goldburg
| writer = William Berke
| starring = Bob Custer
Edward Coxen
Marguerite Clayton
| cinematography = Walter L. Griffin
| studio = Independent Pictures
| distributor = Film Booking Offices of America
| released = {{Film date|1924|12|14}}
| runtime = 50 minutes
| country = United States
| language = Silent
English intertitles
}}
Flashing Spurs is a 1924 American silent Western film directed by B. Reeves Eason and starring Bob Custer, Edward Coxen, and Marguerite Clayton, who has a dual role of twin sisters.Pitts p. 154[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/F/FlashingSpurs1924.html Progressive Silent Film List: Flashing Spurs] at silentera.com A Texas Ranger investigates a woman he believes is mixed up with a gang of outlaws.
Plot
As described in a review in a film magazine,{{cite journal |last=Sewell |first=Charles S. |author-link= |title=Flashing Spurs; Custer's Second for F.B.O. Is Conventional Type of Out-Door Melodrama with Plenty of Action |journal=The Moving Picture World |volume=72 |issue=4 |pages=367 |publisher=Chalmers Publishing Co. |location=New York City |date=24 January 1925 |url=https://archive.org/details/movingpicturewor72janf/page/367/mode/1up |access-date=25 July 2021}} while following a clue, Sargent Stuart (Custer) of the Rangers goes to the city and has a fight with two thugs, Frazier (Bennett) and Scarbee (Hayes), and is overpowered. He makes an escape by crawling into the window of the room of Rena Holden (Clayton), and is impressed by her. Returning later, he finds that she is gone and a letter indicates she is a crook, a member of Steve Clammert's (Coxen) gang, which is planning to rob miner John Holden (Malan). Stuart goes to the mine and sees Ruth Holden (Clayton) and, believing her to be her twin sister Rena, denounces her. Clammert's gang captures him and prepares to kill him when the side of a hill is blown up, but the explosive misfires and he survives. John and Rena, who is masquerading as Ruth, rescue him, and she confesses the plot. They arrive at Clammert's shack in time to rescue Ruth from an attack by Clammert, but Rena is injured during the fight. John forgives Rena, and when she recovers she agrees to become Mrs. Stuart.
Cast
{{Cast listing|
- Bob Custer as Ranger Sgt. Stuart
- Edward Coxen as Steve Clammert
- Marguerite Clayton as Ruth Holden / Rena Holden
- Joseph Bennett as Butch Frazier
- William T. Hayes as Scarbee
- William Malan as John Holden
- Andrew Waldron as Flynn
- Park Frame as Bill Carbee
}}
Preservation
With no prints of Flashing Spurs located in any film archives,[http://lcweb2.loc.gov:8081/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.5309/default.html Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: Flashing Spurs] it is a lost film.
References
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Bibliography
- Langman, Larry. A Guide to Silent Westerns. Greenwood Publishing Group, 1992.
External links
- {{IMDb title|0014909}}
{{B. Reeves Eason}}
Category:1924 Western (genre) films
Category:Films directed by B. Reeves Eason
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:Film Booking Offices of America films
Category:Silent American Western (genre) films
Category:1920s English-language films
Category:English-language Western (genre) films
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