His Back Against the Wall
Don't miss this great romance-you'll revel in its intensity and you'll wish it for your own.
1922 · 50m · N/A
Comedy, Western
Directed by
Rowland V. Lee
Overview
Jeremy Dice, a finisher in a New York East Side tailor shop who prides himself on being a smart dresser and dancer, proves to be cowardly when he retreats from a bully who gets fresh with his girl, and his employer discharges him. Deciding to go out west, Jeremy is caught hitching the rails and comes upon two outlaws in the desert disputing over booty; they are both killed in a shoot-out, and Jeremy is proclaimed a hero by the sheriff.....
Director and cast
- Rowland V. Lee Director
- Raymond Hatton as Jeremy Dice
- Virginia Valli as Mary Welling
- Will Walling as Sheriff Lawrence
- Shannon Day as Dorothy Petwell
- J. Gordon Russell as Bronc Lewis
- W.H. Bainbridge as Henry Welling
- Virginia Madison as Mrs. Welling
- Fred Kohler as Arizona Pete
- Dudley Hendricks as Dr. Farley
- Jack Curtis as Lew Shaler
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