A Man in the Open

A Man in the Open

Western | Feb. 23, 1919

Sailor Jesse, shipwrecked off the Texas coast, naively becomes involved with a cattle rustler. Because the sheriff believes in his innocence, Jesse finds work as a cowboy, but soon becomes infatuated with Polly, the medium for fake hypnotist Bull Brooks, and marries her. When he learns that Polly married to win a bet, Jesse attempts to take her from the town's influences to open spaces, but Brooks falsely reports that she killed herself rather than go.

A Man in the Open

Western | Feb. 23, 1919

A Man in the Open
Sailor Jesse, shipwrecked off the Texas coast, naively becomes involved with a cattle rustler. Because the sheriff believes in his innocence, Jesse finds work as a cowboy, but soon becomes infatuated with Polly, the medium for fake hypnotist Bull Brooks, and marries her. When he learns that Polly married to win a bet, Jesse attempts to take her from the town's influences to open spaces, but Brooks falsely reports that she killed herself rather than go.
Producers United Picture Theatres of America Inc.
Original title A Man in the Open
Directors Ernest C. Warde
Writers Roger Pocock, Fred Myton

Cast

Dustin Farnum

as Sailor Jesse

Herschel Mayall

as Trevor

Lamar Johnstone

as Bull Brooks

Joseph J. Dowling

as James Brown

Claire Du Brey

as Polly

Irene Rich

as Kate