The White Outlaw

THE WHITE OUTLAW is the kind of quickly thrown together silent western where they never watered down the trails with the result that horses and riders disappear in huge clouds of dust. It is also the kind of film where the interior of a rather large saloon doesn't exactly resemble the exterior, which is a mere shack, where the heroine is especially dowdy-looking, and where the director (in this case the famous one-legged Bob Horner) takes time out to photograph the antics of an annoying and completely superfluous child actress. That aside, this is also one of the few chances to see a genuine silent cowboy star, Art Acord, shortly before hard living finally killed him; and it is definitely the ONLY chance to see Acord with two lesser cowboy heroes, Bill Patton and Al Hoxie. The latter always denied ever having worked with Acord, and his footage is probably lifted from another movie altogether. Which is again typical of the kind of slipshod rural film-making that produced westerns like THE WHITE OUTLAW.