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UNITED STATES · 1911

A Knight of the Road

D.W. Griffith
robbery redemption tramps and vagrants frontier justice moral choice
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Synopsis

A tramp overhears a rancher's plans to go to town for the ranch's payroll. He tries to enlist another loafer (the Knight) to help with a robbery. Instead, the Knight helps thwart the robbery.

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