Trigger Fingers (1924 film)
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{{Infobox film
| name = Trigger Fingers
| image = Trigger Fingers lobby card.jpg
| caption = Lobby card
| director = B. Reeves Eason
| producer = Jesse J. Goldburg
| writer = William Berke
| starring = Bob Custer
George Field
Margaret Landis
| cinematography = Walter L. Griffin
| studio = Independent Pictures
| distributor = Film Booking Offices of America
| released = {{Film date|1924|11|}}
| runtime = 50 minutes
| country = United States
| language = Silent
English intertitles
}}
Trigger Fingers is a 1924 American silent Western film directed by B. Reeves Eason and starring Bob Custer, George Field, and Margaret Landis.Rainey p. 206[http://silentera.com/PSFL/data/T/TriggerFinger1924.html Progressive Silent Film List: Trigger Fingers] at silentera.com
Plot
As described in a review in a film magazine,{{cite journal |last=Sewell |first=Charles S. |author-link= |title=Trigger Fingers; First of F.B.O.'s New Texas Ranger Series Starring Bob Custer Is Exciting Border Melodrama |journal=The Moving Picture World |volume=71 |issue=7 |pages=626, 643 |publisher=Chalmers Publishing Co. |location=New York City |date=13 December 1924 |url=https://archive.org/details/movingpicturewor71novd/page/626/mode/1up |access-date=25 June 2021}} in order to better be able to run down a notorious bandit, “The Black Hawk,” Sgt. Steele (Custer) of the Rangers, who has captured another bandit, “Lightning” Brady, impersonates him and joins the gang of unsavory characters led by Murtison (Bennett). Soon he finds The Black Hawk has attacked an official of the mining company and paralyzed his sense of speech. He sends for Dr. Deering (Field), who arrives with his daughter, Ruth (Landis), but returns for instruments and fails to come back. Instead, Murtison’s gang attacks Steele and, in the rumpus, Murtison is killed by The Black Hawk. The gang captures Ruth and a young Indian woman, Wetona (La Rue), and takes them away. Steele rescues them and returns to the shack to find The Black Hawk bending over the patient, who has recovered his speech. Steele forces him to unmask and finds he is Dr. Deering. During a terrific fight, Deering is shot by Wetona. Ruth is shocked to find her father is a bandit, but finds consolation in the love of Steele, who reveals his real identity to her.
Cast
{{Cast listing|
- Bob Custer as Sgt. Bob Steele, posing as Lightning Brady
- George Field as Dr. Deering, aka The Black Hawk
- Margaret Landis as Ruth Deering
- William J. Dyer as Sheriff Mackhart
- Max Asher as Mackhart's Deputy
- Joseph Bennett as Bob Murtison
- Fontaine La Rue as Wetona
- Steve Clemente as Mexican Henchman
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Preservation
With no prints of Trigger Fingers located in any film archives,[http://lcweb2.loc.gov:8081/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.10008/default.html Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: Trigger Fingers] it is a lost film.
References
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Bibliography
- Rainey, Buck. The Strong, Silent Type: Over 100 Screen Cowboys, 1903-1930. McFarland, 2004.
External links
- {{IMDb title|0015430}}
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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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