Beyond the Law

Beyond the Law

Drama, Western | Nov. 26, 1918

When Deputy US Marshal Frank Dalton is killed in the line of duty, his brothers Bob and Grat are appointed to replace him. However, when they discover corruption in the higher echelons of the Marshals Service, they resign in disgust. Grat is cheated by a crooked gambler and takes back his money at gunpoint, but that winds up getting them labeled as robbers. Grat is wrongly accused of train robbery and imprisoned. When he breaks out of prison he and his brother decide to take their revenge by actually robbing the express company that falsely accused him in the first place.

Beyond the Law

Drama, Western | Nov. 26, 1918

Beyond the Law
When Deputy US Marshal Frank Dalton is killed in the line of duty, his brothers Bob and Grat are appointed to replace him. However, when they discover corruption in the higher echelons of the Marshals Service, they resign in disgust. Grat is cheated by a crooked gambler and takes back his money at gunpoint, but that winds up getting them labeled as robbers. Grat is wrongly accused of train robbery and imprisoned. When he breaks out of prison he and his brother decide to take their revenge by actually robbing the express company that falsely accused him in the first place.
Producers Southern Feature Film Corp.
Original title Beyond the Law
Directors Theodore Marston
Writers William Addison Lathrop, Emmett Dalton

Cast

Emmett Dalton

as Self / Bob Dalton / Frank Dalton

Harris Gordon

as Young Emmett Dalton

Ida Pardee

as Mother Dalton

William R. Dunn

as Grat Dalton

Mabel Bardine

as Eugenia Moore

Jack O'Loughlin

as William McElhanie

Dick Clark

as Charles Bryant

Virginia Lee

as Ruth Lane