Lone Fighter

{{short description|1923 film}} {{Use American English|date=September 2021}} {{Use mdy dates|date=September 2021}} {{Infobox film | name = Lone Fighter | image = | caption = | director = Albert Russell | producer = Anthony J. Xydias | writer = | starring = J.B. Warner<br />Vester Pegg<br />Josephine Hill | cinematography = | studio = Sunset Productions | distributor = Aywon Film Corporation | released = {{Film date|1923|11|01}} | runtime = 50 minutes | country = United States | language = Silent (English intertitles) }} '''''Lone Fighter''''' is a 1923 American silent Western film directed by Albert Russell and starring J.B. Warner, Vester Pegg, and Josephine Hill.<ref name="AFI">{{cite book |date=1997 |editor-last=Munden |editor-first=Kenneth W. |title=The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1 |publisher=University of California Press |orig-date=1971 |page=446 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rlLbRAPOgP0C |isbn=0-520-20969-9}}</ref>

==Plot== As described in a film magazine review,<ref>{{cite journal |last=Pardy |first=George T. |title=Box Office Reviews: ''The Lone Fighter'' |journal=Exhibitors Trade Review |volume=15 |issue=11 |pages=25 |publisher=Exhibitors Review Publishing Corporation |date=2 February 1924 |location=New York |url=https://archive.org/details/exhibit00newy/page/n700/mode/1up |accessdate=5 August 2022}} {{Source-attribution}}</ref> Certain Lee, a Texas Ranger, is trailing an outlaw band headed by Macklyn Vance. Lee falls in love with Rose Trimball. She is convinced by Vance that Lee is responsible for the jailing of Harvey Bates, the man she had promised to marry. Rose betrays Lee into the hands of the gang. He escapes after his horse assists in untying his bonds. Bates breaks out of jail and tells Rose that Vance is his enemy. Bates and Vance meet, fight at the edge of a cliff, fall over and are killed. Lee then wins the affections of Rose.

==Cast== * J.B. Warner as Certain Lee * Vester Pegg as Harvey Bates * Josephine Hill as Rose Trimball * Joe Ryan as Macklyn Vance * Jim Gamble as Patrick Trimball

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==External links== * {{IMDb title|0129206}}

Category:1923 films Category:1923 Western (genre) films Category:American black-and-white films Category:Films directed by Albert Russell Category:American silent Western (genre) films Category:1923 English-language films Category:1923 American films Category:English-language Western (genre) films