Buckshot John (1915)

Buckshot John

1915

Western

Synopsis

A sheriff and his posse shoot it out with a gang of robbers headed by Bad Jake Kennedy. The surviving robber, Buckshot John, won't tell where the gang's loot is hidden and gets 30 years in prison. Halfway through his sentence he "gets religion" and in order to save his soul, decides to tell where the gang has hidden its stash of gold. However, a phony clairvoyant, The Great Gilmore, finds out about John's intentions and tricks him into revealing where the gold is. When John finds out what happened, he decides to break out of prison and take care of matters himself.

Credits

Director

Hobart Bosworth

Cast

Art Acord as Hairtrigger Jordan

Carl Von Schiller as Jimmy Dacey - A Reporter

Courtenay Foote as Dr. Buchanan Gilmore / The Great Gilmore

Elmo Lincoln as The Sheriff

Frank Lanning as Bad Jake Kennedy

Helen Wolcott as Ruth Mason

Herbert Standing as John Mason

Hobart Bosworth as 'Buckshot John' Moran