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The Tiger Man

The Tiger Man

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Status

Released

Release Date

Apr 30, 1918

Runtime

1h 3m

Genres

Western

Original Title

The Tiger Man

Production Companies

William S. Hart Productions

Director

William S. Hart

Description

Outlaw Hawk Parsons, notoriously successful in his pursuits, has been caught by the local sherif of a New Mexico town in the 1850s. The overly prideful sherif and his lawmen are outsmarted and Parsons escapes. In the desert, he falls in with a reverend, his wife, and their group of missionaries, who hope to establish a church. After coming under attack by a tribe of Native Americans, Parsons strikes a deal: in exchange for the safe keeping of the missionaries, he takes the reverend's wife for himself. Ultimately a parable of Christian values, the film's narrative establishes and overcomes obstacles that test the virtue of men in the American West.