The Mysterious Outlaw

The Mysterious Outlaw
Directed byFred Kelsey
Written byKarl R. Coolidge
Eugene B. Lewis
StarringHarry Carey
Release date
  • June 11, 1917 (1917-06-11)
CountryUnited States
LanguagesSilent
English intertitles

The Mysterious Outlaw is a 1917 American short silent Western film featuring Harry Carey and released by Universal Pictures.

Cast

  • Harry Carey - Buck Lessen, the Outlaw
  • William Steele - Henry Martin (as William Gettinger)
  • Jane Bernoudy - Jane Martin
  • Elizabeth Janes - Martin's Daughter

Reception

Like many American films of the time, The Mysterious Outlaw was subject to cuts by city and state film censorship boards. The Chicago Board of Censors required cuts of all details of the prisoner Buck Lessen escaping from jail, including the attack on the guard, changing clothes, and the outlaw jumping from the wall, and scenes of the outlaw forcing men to exchange clothes at point of gun, the outlaw stealing a horse, and the shooting of the outlaw.[1]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Official Cut-Outs by the Chicago Board of Censors". Exhibitors Herald. 5 (3). New York City: Exhibitors Herald Company: 33. July 14, 1917. Retrieved November 8, 2014.


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