The toll gate : His bitter pill /
The toll gate: "When Black Deering (Hart) and his gang are ambushed during a daring train holdup, he learns his betrayer was one of his own men, Jordan, whose blood money has bought him a parlor of gambling and prostitution. Upon escaping into the wilderness, Deering finds shelter in the home...
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| Format: | Video VHS |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | Silent movie with new musical score. |
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New York, N.Y. :
Kino on Video,
[1998]
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| Summary: | The toll gate: "When Black Deering (Hart) and his gang are ambushed during a daring train holdup, he learns his betrayer was one of his own men, Jordan, whose blood money has bought him a parlor of gambling and prostitution. Upon escaping into the wilderness, Deering finds shelter in the home of an abandoned woman. There, he finds the possibility of redemption, but his happiness is short-lived when two posses--one led by Jordan, the other by a local sheriff--converge upon the cabin"--Container. His bitter pill: "[T]his is Sennett's famous parody of Hart in which the noble cowboy is viciously lampooned by Mack Swain ... apparently a genuine western, but reflected in the bent mirror of Keystone humor"--Container. |
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| Item Description: | Videocassette release of the 1920 motion picture, digitally mastered from 35mm archive material. Videorecording. |
| Physical Description: | 1 videocassette (93 min.) : sound, color tinted & toned ; 1/2 in. |
| Format: | VHS. |
| Production Credits: | The toll gate: director, Lambert Hillyer ; writers, William S. Hart, Lambert Hillyer ; photography, Joe August ; music, Eric Beheim -- His bitter pill: directed by Fred Fishback ; supervised by Mack Sennett. |