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The Honor of the Range
(1920) United States of America
B&W : Two reels
Directed by Leo Maloney
Cast: Leo Maloney [Forest Ranger Bud Kirkland], Lois Neilson (Lois Nelson) [Betty Hall], Jack Sahr [Billy Hall], Fred Kohler [the villain]
Distributed by The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated [Universal-Western]. / Scenario by Hope Loring, from a screen story by Louis D. Lighton. / Released 18 September 1920. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The film was rereleased in the USA by Universal Pictures Corporation on 12 December 1924.
Drama: Western.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Billy Hall is missing without leave, and the chief of the forest rangers wants to charge him with desertion. Bud Kirkland, another ranger, feels that something is wrong, and discovers a letter, torn in bits, asking Billy to return to “Betty,” at the V-Bar ranch. Bud asks the chief to allow a few more days, and goes off in pursuit. Arriving at the ranch, he sees Billy ride away, and talks to the girl, who proves to be his sister. Billy goes to town, where he gambles, loses, he accuses the winner of having rustled his cattle. During the game Bud enters, but could do nothing with him. Billy then rode away and in rounding up some of his cattle, the rustlers shot him from ambush. Bud arrived, and after a gun battle in which he was shot, he got the two rustlers, just as the sheriff and Betty appeared. It all looked as though Billy had done the battling, and Bud drove off, happy that he had left a comrade to be acclaimed a hero.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 14 January 2025.
References: Website-IMDb.
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