The toll gate /
The toll gate: 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. Escaping into the wilderness, Deering finds shelter in the home of an abandoned w...
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| Format: | Video DVD |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | Silent films with musical accompaniment. |
| Series: | Blackhawk Films collection.
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| Summary: | The toll gate: 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. Escaping into the wilderness, Deering finds shelter in the home of an abandoned woman and her son. There, he finds the possibility of redemption, but his happiness is short-lived when two posses converge upon the cabin. His bitter pill: "[This] is comedy king Mack Sennett's famous lampoon on the noble Good-Bad Man. The hero is played by Mack Swain ... Apparently a genuine western, His bitter pill reflect's Hart's mannerisms in the bent mirror of Keystone humor"--Container. |
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| Item Description: | The toll gate originally produced as a motion picture in 1920. His bitter pill originally produced as a motion picture in 1916. The toll gate digitally remastered from a tinted-and-toned original print. Videorecording. |
| Physical Description: | 1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color tinted and toned ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Format: | DVD; Dolby digital, stereo. |
| Audience: | Not rated. |
| Production Credits: | The toll gate: director, Lambert Hillyer ; writers, William S. Hart, Lambert Hillyer ; photography, Joe August ; music, Eric Beheim. His bitter pill: photographed by J.R. Lockwood ; musical setting, Eric Beheim. |