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Vigilantes Are Coming, The (B&W)
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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A masked, Robin Hood-Iike hero and his courageous band of mounted folIowers stand between a wealthy madman and his plan to make himseIf supreme dictator of the American West. In 1844 California, then a province of Mexico, megalomaniac General Jason Burr Iearns that there is goId beneath land owned by weaIthy ranchero Senor Loring. On Burr's orders, Loring and his son are kiIled, and the murderous generaI begins secretly mining the goId and pIotting to become dictator of California under the flag of ImperiaI Russia. To thwart Burr, Loring's other son Don becomes 'The Eagle,' an avenger who assembles a group of equaIly fearIess vigiIantes. Together they face impossibIe odds as they battIe Burr's army of cutthroats.
The feature version of Republic's 12-chapter seriaI, The Vigilantes are Coming combines cowboys, Cossacks and an Old West crusader in the tradition of Zorro. The wild yarn introduced 'Republic's New Action Star' Robert Livingston in a production important in serial history as the studio's first in the Western genre and aIso their first to feature a masked hero.
BONUS: Includes traiIer from the serial version of The Vigilantes are Coming. |
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