The Big Diamond Robbery

The Big Diamond Robbery

65 mins | Western | May 13, 1929

Tom Mix starred in this late-silent Wild West melodrama from poverty row company FBO as a ranch foreman assigned to escort his employer's daughter (Kathryn McGuire) from the big city back to the ranch. The girl, Ellen, is carrying the valuable Regent diamond, and the pair become the target of a gang of thieves led, it turns out, by Ellen's former fiancée Rodney (Ernest Hilliard).

The Big Diamond Robbery

65 mins | Western | May 13, 1929

The Big Diamond Robbery
Tom Mix starred in this late-silent Wild West melodrama from poverty row company FBO as a ranch foreman assigned to escort his employer's daughter (Kathryn McGuire) from the big city back to the ranch. The girl, Ellen, is carrying the valuable Regent diamond, and the pair become the target of a gang of thieves led, it turns out, by Ellen's former fiancée Rodney (Ernest Hilliard).
Producers
Original title The Big Diamond Robbery
Directors Eugene Forde
Writers Frank Howard Clark, Eugene Forde, John Twist

Cast

Tom Mix

as Tom Markham

Tony the Horse

as Tony (as Tony the Wonder Horse)

Kathryn McGuire

as Ellen Brooks

Frank Beal

as George Brooks

Martha Mattox

as Aunt Effie

Ernest Hilliard

as Rodney Stevens

Barney Furey

as Barney McGill

Ethan Laidlaw

as Chick