The Love Bandit

The Love Bandit is a 1924 American silent [Western film] with a Northwoods theme directed by Dell Henderson and starring Doris Kenyon, Victor Sutherland, and Cecil Spooner.

Plot

As described in a film magazine review, Amy Van Clayton is saved from drowning by Jim Blazes, whom she meets in a lumber camp. In New York City, Amy finds that her brother Fred Clayton is in danger of going to jail for robbing from his employer, who turns out to be Jim Blazes. Amy marries Jim to save her brother. Feeling that his wife does not love him, Jim returns to the lumber camp and is wounded in a gang fight. Amy is kidnapped and Jim gets into a vicious gun fight with Amy's kidnappers whom he later subdues. He saves Amy, who was tied to a buzzsaw table, from certain death. Now rescued, Amy finds happiness with her husband.

Cast

Censorship

Before The Love Bandit could be exhibited in Kansas, the Kansas Board of Review required the removal of the scene where a man is shot in "cold blood."

Preservation

An abridged version of The Love Bandit survives with a private collector.