A girl loses her memory when she witnesses her uncle's murder. The murderer, intent on obtaining a written confession from her that she killed her uncle, kidnaps the girl, but she escapes.
If you have seventy minutes to spare and a high tolerance for the kind of movie logic that suggests a loud noise can delete a person's entire identity, The Cowboy Cavalier is fine. It’s not a lost masterpiece, and it’s not quite a disaster, but it sits in that weird 1928 pocket where silent films were getting technical...
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"If you have seventy minutes to spare and a high tolerance for the kind of movie logic that suggests a loud noise can delete a person's entire identity, The Cowboy Cavalier is fine. It’s not a lost masterpiece, and it’s not quite a disaster, but it sits in that weird 1928 pocket where silent films were getting technically proficient but the plots were still leaning on the most exhausted tropes available. It’s worth a look if you’re into the transition period of Westerns—right before sound change..."
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