The Escape (1926 film)

The Escape is a 1926 American silent Western film directed by Milburn Morante and starring Pete Morrison, Barbara Starr, and Frank Norcross.

Plot
As described in a film magazine review, Johnny Bowers and Howard Breen are rival suitors for Evelyn Grant, daughter of the town's bank owner. Breen is also secretly head of a bandit gang and plans a robbery of the stagecoach while it is bringing money to the bank. Johnny and his men are jailed on a false charge, but they escape, halt the stage, and preemptively take the money to the bank. The gang then holds up the bank and is pursued by a posse. Breen is killed. Johnny and Evelyn become a couple.

Cast

 * Pete Morrison as Johnny Bowers
 * Barbara Starr as Evelyn Grant
 * Frank Norcross as Jeremiah Grant
 * Bruce Gordon as Howard Breen
 * Elmer Dewey as Silas Peele
 * Jane Arden as Flossie Lane
 * Tex Young as Manuel Estrada