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O’Malley Rides Alone
(1930) United States of America
B&W : Five reels / 4700 feet
Directed by J.P. McGowan
Cast: Bob Custer [Sergeant Kirk O’Malley], Phyllis Bainbridge [Joyce McGregor], J.P. McGowan [Angus McGregor], Martin Cichy [Sled Sassoon, also known as ‘Brag’], Perry Murdock [Trooper Dan Calhoun], Charles Brinley [Sassoon’s assistant], Slim Whitaker [Ullik], Bud Osborne [Bull, a henchman], Cliff Lyons [a henchman], Buck Bucko [a half-breed], Rube Dalroy [the jailer], Cliff Lyons [stuntman], [?] Tom Tyler?
J.P. McGowan Productions production; distributed [?] on State Rights basis? by Syndicate Pictures Corporation. / Scenario by Jacques Jaccard, from a screen story by Sally Winters. Cinematography by Hap Depew [?] + [Reginald Lyons]? / Released 1 January 1930. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Silent film.
Drama: Northwoods.
Synopsis: [Variety, 5 February 1930, page 31] McGowan [McGregor] had made a cleanup prospecting for gold. He takes the wrong road home. His granddaughter [Joyce] gives away the secret to the villain [Sled]. So the old man is held up and shot. The gold, however, is confiscated by a Royal mounty [Sergeant O’Malley] fortuitously assigned to that district but a short time previously. A second mounty is in on the deal, and between these two, the old man and the gal, they nab the real crooks and the red-coated cop wins the blonde.
Survival status: Print exists [35mm nitrate positive].
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 17 April 2025.
References: Website-AFI; Website-IMDb.
Home video: VHS.
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