Mar 18, 1915
11 min
Full-HD

His Desperate Deed (1915)

The hero's mother is desperately ill and the young fellow, while going afoot for a doctor, stops a mail carrier and forces him- at the point of the pistol- to give up his horse.

Category

Drama Western

Country

United States of America

Companies

Biograph Company

Harry Carey

Burleigh

Charles West

Grant

Kate Bruce

Grant's Mother

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