Tom McCall, a deputy marshal, is detailed to hunt for narcotics smugglers and heads into the California Sierras where he buys an old white mule for $10 and goes to work for Ruth Martin, the owner of the Lazy M..

If you like watching old-school cowboys do their thing without all the CGI noise, The Drifter is a decent way to spend an hour. But if you can't stand silent movies or plots that take their sweet time, you’ll probably want to skip this one. Tom Mix plays a deputy marshal named Tom McCall. He’s hunting for narcotics sm...

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"If you like watching old-school cowboys do their thing without all the CGI noise, The Drifter is a decent way to spend an hour. But if you can't stand silent movies or plots that take their sweet time, you’ll probably want to skip this one. Tom Mix plays a deputy marshal named Tom McCall. He’s hunting for narcotics smugglers, which is a pretty heavy plot for 1929, if you think about it. The movie starts getting interesting when Tom heads into the California Sierras. He buys this old white mule..."
Randolph Bartlett, Oliver Drake, George W. Pyper, Robert De Lacey
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