The Escape
The Escape is a 1926 American silent Western film directed by Milburn Morante and starring Pete Morrison, Barbara Starr, and Frank Norcross.
Plot
As described in a film magazine review, Johnny Bowers and Howard Breen are rival suitors for Evelyn Grant, daughter of the town's bank owner. Breen is also secretly head of a bandit gang and plans a robbery of the stagecoach while it is bringing money to the bank. Johnny and his men are jailed on a false charge, but they escape, halt the stage, and preemptively take the money to the bank. The gang then holds up the bank and is pursued by a posse. Breen is killed. Johnny and Evelyn become a couple.
More details
| author | Frank S. Beresford L. V. Jefferson |
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| director | Milburn Morante |
| genre | western |
| keywords | bandit gang jail kill |
| producer | Carl Laemmle |
| productionCompany | Universal Pictures |
| publisher | Universal Pictures |