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Chimmie Fadden Out West
UNITED STATES · 1915

Chimmie Fadden Out West

Cecil B. DeMille
railroad schemes gold rush deception Death Valley cross-country journey con artist protagonist
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Synopsis

Chimmie is sent to Death Valley CA as part of a railroad scheme. He's to pretend to have discovered gold there, then set a new transcontinental record heading east. It doesn't quite work out that way.

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