Neil Allison (Harry Carey) is tricked into assaying some false samples from a young crook's mine. When Neil sees that he has been duped, a quarrel ensues, and Jim Starke (Edmund Cobb), the youth, is stabbed by an unknown assassin.
A Silent Western That Echoes Beyond Its Era When the title The Miracle Baby first flickers across a grainy screen, one expects a simple frontier melodrama. What unfolds, however, is a layered tableau of guilt, redemption, and the fragile bonds that tether strangers together in the unforgiving West. Director Jacque...
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" A Silent Western That Echoes Beyond Its Era When the title The Miracle Baby first flickers across a grainy screen, one expects a simple frontier melodrama. What unfolds, however, is a layered tableau of guilt, redemption, and the fragile bonds that tether strangers together in the unforgiving West. Director Jacques Jaccard, collaborating with writers Frank Richardson Pierce and Isadore Bernstein, constructs a narrative that oscillates between the stark austerity of the landscape and the int..."
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