Range Law (1931)

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Country: USA
Genres: Western
Release: 1931-10-11
Director: Phil Rosen
Writers: Earle Snell
Language: English
Stars: Ken Maynard , Frances Dade , Frank Mayo , Aileen Manning , Jack Rockwell , Lafe McKee , Charles King , Tom London , Ralph Bucko , Roy Bucko
Runtime: 63 min
Awards: N/A
AKA: Range Law , Tahys san astrapi (Greece) , Range Law (United States of America) , Il passo del lupo (Italy) , La loi du ranch (Belgium) , A Lei das Montanhas (Brazil) , Cowboy Rache , Dånande hovar (Sweden)
Plot: Hap Connors, not Conners(Ken Maynard)is an escaped convict looking for the man who framed him into a prison sentence.He runs into a prison companion, known as "Old" Frisco(Lafe McKee)who broke out a few days earlier than Hap. They hear some shots, reckon it is only some deer hunters, but it is a stage holdup engineered by Jim Blount(Frank Mayo) and staged by his chief henchmen "Bull" Legal(Charles King.)A worried Blount has heard about Hap's escape and tells Legal and his other henchmen that he will double the state's reward offer to the man who brings Hap to him---dead. Hap picks up a pair of slippers on the trail and at the next ranch meets the girl to whom they belong; Ruth Warren(Frances Dade),the ranch owner who gives him a job.At a town dance, Hap meets Ruth again and she tells him she is to be married the next day to Blount. Blount confronts Hap, calls him an escaped convict and Hap draws his guns and makes an exit through a window.Outside, Legal has been planted to shoot Hap but Frisco comes up behind him and clubs him down with a pistol.Hap rides back to town to try to persuade Ruth not to marry Blount but is caught by Blount and the sheriff(Jack Rockwell) and jailed. Frisco, disguised as a Mexican woman,smuggles Hap a saw and he escapes. He hurries to the ranch and breaks up the wedding somewhat by kidnapping the bride and taking her to Frisco's hideout.But this is a Ken Maynard film and something cute has to happen and cute this time is Mary crying about a basket-full of newly born kittens at her house that will starve unless they are fed, so there's nothing for Hap to do except go feed the kittens.Some more things happen including Hap(or Cliff Lyons)going over a cliff into some rapids, Ruth wandering off and discovering evidence that will clear Hap and convict Blount, and Blount and Legal catching Hap feeding the kittens.
IMDB:tt0022294