''The Vagabond Trail'' is a lost 1924 American silent

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directed by William A. Wellman and produced and distributed by the

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. The film is based on the 1923 novel ''Donnegan'' by George Owen Baxter (aka Max Brand).

Plot

As described in a film magazine review, while playing with his younger brother Donnegan, Lord Nick is the cause of his injury and, when he learns that the youngster may die, he leaves home and becomes a

vagabond Vagrancy is the condition of wandering homelessness without regular employment or income. Vagrants usually live in poverty and support themselves by travelling while engaging in begging, waste picker, scavenging, or petty theft. In Western ...

. However, the boy does not die, and when he becomes older he sets out to find his older brother. He has several thrilling encounters, among which is one with a bully who shoots and wounds Donnegan rather severely. It develops after the shooting that the man who committed the crime is the brother for whom he had been searching. After a reconciliation, there is happiness among the parties.

Cast

Preservation status

With no prints of ''The Vagabond Trail'' located in any film archives,The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: ''The Vagabond Trail''
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* Films directed by William A. Wellman 1924 Western (genre) films 1924 films Films based on American novels Fox Film films American black-and-white films Lost American Western (genre) films 1924 lost films Silent American Western (genre) films 1920s American films 1920s English-language films English-language Western (genre) films Lost silent American films {{US-silent-Western-film-stub