Hell Bent

A cowboy must save his girlfriend from captivity and then cross the desert on foot with a single waterhole on the way.

A cowboy must save his girlfriend from captivity and then cross the desert on foot with a single waterhole on the way.

Clay Burgess (Tom Mix), a drifter, returns to the small town of Palo to find the president of the bank — his father — murdered and the unscrupulous “Big” Dave Dawley (George Nichols) in charge.

A Roy William Neill film directed by , released in 1918.

A Clifford Smith film directed by , released in 1918.

The film’s highlight was a scene in which Mix, hoping to escape a pursuing posse, jumps towards a moving train and crashes neatly through one of the passenger windows.

A Jack Conway film directed by , released in 1918.

A Thomas N. Heffron film directed by , released in 1918.

A Clifford Smith film directed by , released in 1918.

A Clifford Smith film directed by , released in 1918.

George MacFarland, a wealthy young man who loves adventure, bets his friends Thornton Brown and Arthur Sole $20,000 that he can commit a crime and elude the police for a year. After he forges a check, George heads West and…