The Courage of Collins (1927)
In this rare surviving two-reeler for Edmund Cobb's Universal series, the taciturn star plays Constable Collins, a Northwest Mounted police officer assigned to help pretty Rose Foster (Helen Foster) and her brother, Jack (Newton House), who are in trouble with a gang of claim jumpers. Unbeknownst to Rose, the gang is headed by Jim Murdock, whom the girl considers her only friend. Collins, who pretends to be a drifter, immediately becomes suspicious of Murdock's motives and the villain strikes back by having Rose kidnapped. There is a climactic fight in an abandoned shack in the wilderness but young Jack arrives in the nick of time with the Mounties.
Director: Ray Taylor
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Edmund Cobb as Constable Collins |
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Helen Foster as Rose Foster |
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Walter Shumway as Jim Murdock |
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Newton House as Dave Foster |
| Directing | Ray Taylor | Director |
| Writing | George H. Plympton | Writer |
