Harry Carey stars in a pretty good programmer about a railroad engineer, down on his luck, who takes the blame for a murder in order to get his adopted son, Frankie Darro, an operation for his eyes. Everyone is against him but hash house slinger Edith Roberts.
The whole thing wanders from the Battle of Château Thierry in France to some nice outdoors scenery around Klamath Falls in Oregon and ends with Carey running a train through a burning forest for ten thousand dollars. Carey was a middle-ranked star at this point, having started out with D.W. Griffith. He would continue to star in B westerns through the 1940s and take starring supporting roles until his death in the late 1940s -- look for him as the Vice-President in MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON as, basically, Will Rogers.
This is the sort of movie where the story drives the characters, but Carey pulls off his part with his usual great competence.
The whole thing wanders from the Battle of Château Thierry in France to some nice outdoors scenery around Klamath Falls in Oregon and ends with Carey running a train through a burning forest for ten thousand dollars. Carey was a middle-ranked star at this point, having started out with D.W. Griffith. He would continue to star in B westerns through the 1940s and take starring supporting roles until his death in the late 1940s -- look for him as the Vice-President in MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON as, basically, Will Rogers.
This is the sort of movie where the story drives the characters, but Carey pulls off his part with his usual great competence.