''The Fighting Peacemaker'' is a 1926 American silent

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directed by Clifford Smith and starring

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, Lola Todd, and Ted Oliver.

Plot

As described in a film magazine review, Peace Parker returns to Tarp City after serving a jail sentence on a false charges, returns home determined to get the man who framed him. He hears Jess Marshall, the young woman that he loves, is engaged to another man. Learning that there is a plot to run sheep onto the Marshall ranch grounds, Peace, with the assistance of Hanna, a fat Hobo, leads the cowmen against the sheepherders. Jess is kidnapped. Peace rescues her and learns that she is still true to him. The plotters are defeated and his innocence established.

Cast

as 'Peace River' Parker * Lola Todd as Jess Marshall * Ted Oliver as Jefferson Crane * William Steele as Clell Danert * Robert McKenzie as Hanna *

Clark Comstock Clark Comstock (1862–1934) was an American film actor of the silent and early sound era. He appeared in around 50 films and serials between 1915 and 1930, many of them westerns.Katchmer p.69 Selected filmography * ''The Westerners'' (1919) * ...

as Mr. Marshall as Jess's Father * Frank Rice as Sheriff

References

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* 1926 films 1926 Western (genre) films Universal Pictures films Films directed by Clifford Smith American black-and-white films Silent American Western (genre) films 1920s English-language films 1920s American films English-language Western (genre) films {{US-silent-Western-film-stub