Law and Outlaw (Silent)

Tom Mix on DVD -- and this one has never been on video.
The Law and the Outlaw is a rare gem of Tom Mix history. This film was never on VHS, so it's a miracle that this movie is now available on DVD. Great fun! Tom Mix, the superstar of silent Westerns, rides again!

Historically Interesting.
I had not seen Tom Mix before, and this movie is a pretty good place to start. There are no close-ups, probably because film-making was still in its relative infancy in 1913 and would develop more in the decade to come. From what I understand this was a feature film in the late 'teens made up of footage from earlier two-reelers and the seams show. Mix did his own stunts and he got pretty beat up in this one, many bad things happening to him. Still a happy ending, and the intertitles make it easier to follow the story. The music is period orchestrations, happy jazz at first, then appropriately themed 'excitement' music, but not a custom-made score that follows the action as some other silent film productions have done. Print quality is watchable throughout, and I am thankful to Alpha for making this Tom Mix film available to us.



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