Summary of movie Fighting Thru; Or, California In 1878 (1930)
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Miner Dan Barton (Ken Maynard) and his partner George Malden, known as Tennessee, have hit a strike on their claim, and Dan rteurns to their cabin to find that Malden has departed to meet his sister, Alice (Jeanette Loff), who is arriving on the stage from Tennessee to join her brother. Dan knows that Malden has a weakness for drink, gambling and girls and follows him to town, where he finds him playing cards with gamblers Fox Tyson (Charles King) and saloon owner Ace Brady (William Thorne) who, with the aid of bar girl Queenie (Carmelita Geraghty), are well on their way to cheating him out of his share of the claim. Dan puts the stop to that, but Madlen is killed by Tyson and Dan is framed for the killing.
He escapes and saves Alice from a stagecoach disaster, and taeks her to his and Maldens cabin, but doesnt let her know he is wanted for the death of her brother. But Ace and Tyson quickly inform her, and are well on thier way to getting all of the Barton/Malden gold mine.
The two songs are Wait for the Wagon and Oh, Susanna.
Other than being filmed under the working tilte of California in 1878, which was also the title of Jack Nattefords original story,and then getting sold to TV in 1949 and having the title changed, there is no other alternative titles on that film. Two alternative spellings are shown by sources---fighting for fightin and through for thru---but those are typos created by two different trade paper reviewers in 1930.Accuracy regarding B-western titles was not a sticky point with the trade papers of the day.There are several versions of that story, including a Maynard remake called Fargo Express and Reliable Pictures used the story for Bob Steeles The Pal from Texas.
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Fighting Thru; or, California in 1878 (1930)
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