The Combat (1926 film)

The Combat is a 1926 American silent Western film directed by Lynn Reynolds and starring House Peters, Wanda Hawley, and Walter McGrail.

Plot
As described in a film magazine review, two-fisted lumberjack Blaze Burke is made boss of Jerry Flint's logging camp and proceeds to eliminate an opposition gang of huskies led by Red McLaughlin. Double-crossed by Milton Symmons, he takes the latter's prospective bride Alice Childers to a lonely cabin. Trailed by McLaughlin, they fight with McLaughlin falling over a cliff to his death. Blaze restores Alice to Milton. Subsequently he saves Alice from a forest fire but Milton perishes in it. In the end, Blaze wins the affections of Alice.

Cast

 * House Peters as Blaze Burke
 * Wanda Hawley as Alice Childers
 * Walter McGrail as Milton Symmons
 * C.E. Anderson as Red McLaughlin
 * Charles Hill Mailes as Jeremiah 'Jerry' Flint
 * Steve Clemente as Halfbreed
 * Howard Truesdale as Sheriff