Bucking the Barrier

A Colin Campbell film directed by , released in 1923.

A Colin Campbell film directed by , released in 1923.

David Darby and his younger brother Ross are both members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Ross is accused of murdering Slip Martin, but David doesn’t believe his brother committed the murder and, not wanting to see him executed, takes…

Veteran western performers Harry Carey and Marguerite Clayton appeared in three films together from 1923-1924: Desert Driven, Tiger Thompson and, perhaps their best, Canyon of the Fools.

David Butler and Fritzi Brunette star in this melodrama about an agricultural student whose wife longs for life in the city.

A young woman trying to make it in Hollywood decides that the only way she can attain stardom is to go the “vamp” route, although in her private life she’s nothing like her on-screen character. She gets the recognition she…

Babs Weston agrees to marry adventurer Richard Forestall before his hasty departure, accepting his ring and promising to be faithful. Richard returns to find that his fiancée has become a “victim of jazz” and is engaged to two other men,…

Young Terwilliger, an orphan boy in New York City, “adopts” Old Archer, the caretaker of Gramercy Park, after the man is arrested for beating Terwiliger for picking a flower for his dead mother. As Terwilliger grows up, he falls in…

World War I veteran Jack Dunbar who, like a lot of veterans then and now, is finding it hard to land a job. When he fixes the broken down auto of the newly rich Nicholas Small, he finally runs into…

Boston Blackie is a former prison inmate campaigning to outlaw Warden Benton’s infamous “Water Cross” torture. Benton, however, is successful in his attempt to have Blackie arrested and returned to the prison, but his evil schemes are ultimately thwarted by…

A wealthy banker is a strict disciplinarian with his nine-year-old son Bill. Finally the day comes when neither Bill nor his mother can put up any more with the father’s relentlessness and heavy-handed treatment; she leaves and takes Bill with…