The Wallop (1921)

Release Date: 1921-05-09
Runtime: 0h 50min
Production Company: Universal Film Manufacturing Company
Production Country: United States of America
Director: John Ford

John Wesley Pringle, adventurer at large, returns home after making his strike and finds his old girl friend, Stella, engaged to Christopher Foy, who is running for sheriff. Pringle foils an attempt by incumbent sheriff Matt Lisner to kill Foy, but when Foy is accused of a murder, Pringle, in a clever ruse, captures Foy, holds the posse at gunpoint, and then releases him, explaining his motive.