A rancher stands up for an employee unjustly accused of cattle rustling..


A bullet-hole moon hangs over the Sawtooths; beneath it, Jack Connolly’s mare exhales frost and regret. The Wolverine—no relation to clawed mutants, but rather a 1921 oater that slipped through distribution like a coyote through barbed wire—belongs to that exquisite tribe of silent Westerns which smell of kerosene, ...
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" A bullet-hole moon hangs over the Sawtooths; beneath it, Jack Connolly’s mare exhales frost and regret. The Wolverine—no relation to clawed mutants, but rather a 1921 oater that slipped through distribution like a coyote through barbed wire—belongs to that exquisite tribe of silent Westerns which smell of kerosene, sweat, and wet rawhide. Director-star Leo D. Maloney, Idaho-born and rodeo-raised, sculpts a morality tale that is less about six-gun heroics than about the arithmetic of silence: ..."
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