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Poster for Ammunition Smuggling on the Mexican Border (1914)

Ammunition Smuggling on the Mexican Border (1914)

1914 · Silent film · 41 min

  • Western
  • Documentary
  • Drama

Synopsis

Around the film hang fascinating questions about border politics, which I’ll touch on in an introduction before the screening. One of Eugene Buck’s motivations for making the film may have been his rough cross-examination during his kidnappers’ first trials, in October 1913, when defense attorneys cast him as a confused and unreliable witness against idealistic freedom fighters. On film he could reproduce the pursuit, the shootouts, his kidnapping, and his friend’s murder just as he had…

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Details

Studio
Elk Photoplays Inc, Buckhorn Film Co
Released
1914-09-29
Running time
41 minutes

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