Ben Trego dies defending his twin sons from Indian attack. Separated, the two boys grow up very differently, one as Paul Marsden, the other as a cowboy named Three Word Brand.


A bullet cleaves a family, and out of the wound crawl two myths: the man who writes laws and the man who burns brands into hide. William S. Hart never needed talkies; his cheekbones pronounced verdicts, and the tremor of his upper lip was a whole third-act confession. In Three Word Brand he doubles that economy of ...

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" A bullet cleaves a family, and out of the wound crawl two myths: the man who writes laws and the man who burns brands into hide. William S. Hart never needed talkies; his cheekbones pronounced verdicts, and the tremor of his upper lip was a whole third-act confession. In Three Word Brand he doubles that economy of gesture by playing both poles of the American psyche—citizen and savage, governor and drifter—without split-screen gimmickry, relying instead on silhouette, negative space, and the..."
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