The Love Bandit

The Love Bandit
Still with Kenyon and Sutherland
Directed by	Dell Henderson
Written by	Lewis Allen Browne
Based on	The Love Bandit by Charles E. Blaney and Norman Houston
Starring	Doris Kenyon Victor Sutherland Cecil Spooner
Production company	Charles E. Blaney Productions
Distributed by	Vitagraph Company of America
Release date	January 6, 1924 (1924-01-06)
Running time	60 minutes
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

The Love Bandit is a 1924 American silent Western film with a Northwoods theme directed by Dell Henderson and starring Doris Kenyon, Victor Sutherland, and Cecil Spooner.[1][2]

Plot

As described in a film magazine review,[3] Amy Van Clayton is saved from drowning by Jim Blazes, whom she meets in a lumber camp. In New York City, Amy finds that her brother Fred Clayton is in danger of going to jail for robbing from his employer, who turns out to be Jim Blazes. Amy marries Jim to save her brother. Feeling that his wife does not love him, Jim returns to the lumber camp and is wounded in a gang fight. Amy is kidnapped and Jim gets into a vicious gun fight with Amy's kidnappers whom he later subdues. He saves Amy, who was tied to a buzzsaw table, from certain death. Now rescued, Amy finds happiness with her husband.

Cast

• Doris Kenyon as Amy Van Clayton
• Victor Sutherland as Jim Blazes
• Cecil Spooner as Madge Dempsey
• Lorenza Valentine as "Frenchie" Annie
• Jules Cowles as Henri Baribeau
• Gardner James as Frederick Van Clayton
• Christian J. Frank as Buck Ramsdell
• Dorothy Walters as Maggie McGuiry[4]
• Edward Boulden as "Snapper" Rollins
• Walter Jones as John Lawson
• Evelyn McCoy as Minor Role (uncredited)
• Tom Wilson as Minor Role (uncredited)

See also

• Blue Jeans (1917)
• The Ice Flood (1926)

Preservation

An abridged version of The Love Bandit survives with a private collector.[5]

References

1. The AFI Catalog of Feature Films 1893-1993: The Love Bandit
2. Goble p. 845
3. Pardy, George T. (January 12, 1924). "Box Office Reviews: The Love Bandit". Exhibitors Trade Review. 15 (7). New York: Exhibitors Review Publishing Corporation: 22. Retrieved June 9, 2022. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
4. "The Love Bandit", review, Variety, February 14, 1924, p. 27. Internet Archive, San Francisco, California. Retrieved July 30, 2019.
5. The Library of Congress / FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: The Love Bandit

Bibliography

• Goble, Alan (1999). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 1-85739-229-9

External links

• The Love Bandit at IMDb
• Lobby card at www.gettyimages.com
• Lobby card at The Limington Historical Society