A girl's father is a geologist, and soon after he strikes gold they are attacked by bandits. To complicate matters one of the bandits turns out to be the girl's brother.
Harry McArthur, George H. Plympton
United States
The silent era of cinema often functioned as a crucible for the American psyche, melting down the rugged individualism of the frontier into the desperate, often tragic, narratives of familial disintegration. In Beauty and the Bandit, directed with a keen eye for the visceral tension between the wild and the dome...
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Edward A. Kull
Edgar Jones
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" The silent era of cinema often functioned as a crucible for the American psyche, melting down the rugged individualism of the frontier into the desperate, often tragic, narratives of familial disintegration. In Beauty and the Bandit, directed with a keen eye for the visceral tension between the wild and the domestic, we are presented with a story that transcends its genre trappings. It is not merely a Western; it is a liturgical examination of the corrosive power of sudden wealth. The scr..."
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