Three Who Paid
6.4 /10 1 Votes
Genre Western Production companies Fox Film Country United States | 6.2/10 IMDb Story by Frederick Schiller Faust Duration | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Language Silent (English intertitles) Director Colin Campbell
William A. Wellman (assistant director) Release date January 7, 1923 (1923-01-07) (U.S.) Based on The Range-Land Avenger (short story)
by George Owen Baxter Writer Max Brand (story), Joseph F. Poland Directors William A. Wellman, Colin Campbell Genres Melodrama, Western, Silent film Cast Bessie Love (Virginia Cartwright), Dustin Farnum (Riley Sinclair), Fred Kohler (Jim Quade), Frank Campeau (Edward Sanderson), William Robert Daly (Sam Lowrie)Similar movies Related William A Wellman movies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Three Who Paid is a 1923 American silent Western melodrama film based on the 1922 short story by George Owen Baxter. The film was directed by Colin Campbell, and stars Dustin Farnum, with Bessie Love and Frank Campeau.
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Plot
Riley Sinclair (Farnum) seeks to avenge the death of his brother, whose three companions – Quade, Sanderson, and Lowrie – left him to die in the desert. Two of the three men die, and the third is spared so that he can confess to the crime. Sinclair helps John Caspar (Love), a schoolteacher, who is actually a rich young woman who is trying to get away from her opportunist husband. When her identity is revealed, she and Sinclair fall in love.
Cast
Production
The film was filmed in Orange County, California. Production was delayed when Bessie Love, who was responsible for her own wardrobe, forgot to bring spirit gum to hold her wig, the prop man gave her LePage's glue, which adhered the wig to her head.
Release and reception
The film was "a first rate production", but had issues. For the parts of the film when her character is masquerading as a man, Bessie Love was deemed unconvincing. Overall, the film received mixed reviews.
On its release, some theaters showed the film with the short Nobody's Darling.
References
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