Fighting for Justice

Jailed for a robbery he didn’t commit, Bullets Bernard (Art Acord) enlists an alcoholic jailhouse lawyer (Paul Weigel) to defend him. The lawyer sobers up just enough to be effective, and Bernard is set free — not a minute too soon. It turns out his girlfriend Shirley (Vane Truant) has been kidnapped and the villain, in cahoots with a crooked attorney, proves to be none other than the man who framed Bullets in the first place. The “Vane Truant” listed in the cast of this obscure silent Western is most likely Acord’s real-life wife, actress Louise Lorraine, moonlighting from her steady job at Universal Studios.