The Law of the Range is a 1928

1928 in film

-Events:Although some movies released in 1928 had sound, most were still silent.* July 28 - Lights of New York is released by Warner Brothers. It is the first "100% Talkie" feature film, in that dialog is spoken throughout the film...

 American silent

Silent film

A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially with no spoken dialogue. In silent films for entertainment the dialogue is transmitted through muted gestures, pantomime and title cards...

 Western

Western (genre)

The Western is a genre of various visual arts, such as film, television, radio, literature, painting and others. Westerns are devoted to telling stories set primarily in the latter half of the 19th century in the American Old West, hence the name. Some Westerns are set as early as the Battle of...

 film starring Tim McCoy

Tim McCoy

Col. Tim McCoy was an American actor, military officer, and expert on American Indian life and customs.-Early years:...

 and Joan Crawford

Joan Crawford

Joan Crawford , born Lucille Fay LeSueur, was an American actress in film, television and theatre....

 and Rex Lease

Rex Lease

Rex Lloyd Lease was an American actor. He appeared in over 300 films, mainly in westerns. Lease was accused in 1930 by Vivian Duncan of the Duncan Sisters for assault...

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Cast

• Tim McCoy
  Tim McCoy
  Col. Tim McCoy was an American actor, military officer, and expert on American Indian life and customs.-Early years:...
  
   - Jim Lockhart
• Joan Crawford
  Joan Crawford
  Joan Crawford , born Lucille Fay LeSueur, was an American actress in film, television and theatre....
  
   - Betty Dallas
• Rex Lease
  Rex Lease
  Rex Lloyd Lease was an American actor. He appeared in over 300 films, mainly in westerns. Lease was accused in 1930 by Vivian Duncan of the Duncan Sisters for assault...
  
   - Solitaire Kid
• Bodil Rosing
  Bodil Rosing
  Bodil Rosing was a Danish born American film actress in the silent and sound eras. She made one or two stage appearances on Broadway but in the meantime raised four chidren.-Filmography:* Pretty Ladies...
  
   - Mother of Jim and the Kid
• Tenen Holtz
  Tenen Holtz
  Tenen Holtz was a Russian actor. He appeared in nearly 60 films between 1926 and 1961.He was born Elihu "Elye" Tenenholtz in the hamlet of Azran, near the city of Rovne and came to the United States the age of ten...
  
   - Cohen

Plot

Betty Dallas (Crawford)is a passenger on a stagecoach

Stagecoach

A stagecoach is a type of covered wagon for passengers and goods, strongly sprung and drawn by four horses, usually four-in-hand. Widely used before the introduction of railway transport, it made regular trips between stages or stations, which were places of rest provided for stagecoach travelers...

that is held up by an outlaw named, The Solitaire Kid (Lease). Ranger Jim Lockhart, (McCoy),
who is Betty's sweetheart, is in pursuit of The Solitaire Kid, and in the end, as the two men face one another, there is a mortal shoot-out.