The Ace of the Saddle (1919)

• 46%
• 1919
• Western
• John Ford
• Harry Carey
• Joe Harris
• Duke R. Lee

Cattle rancher Cheyenne Harry Henderson discovers that rustlers are attacking his herd, he informs Yucca County's sheriff but learns that the lawman is in cahoots with the outlaws. Harry then appeals to Sheriff Faulkner of neighboring Pinkerton County, but Faulkner is powerless to intervene. Faulkner's daughter Madeline, attracts Harry's attention and the two fall in love, however Madeline hates violence, asks him to give up wearing a gun, Harry obeys. Because the rustlers are prohibited by an unwritten law from shooting an unarmed man, they poison the waterhole at Harry's ranch. Harry harnesses six horses to pull his cabin into Pinkerton, where some of the rustlers are arrested when they follow. The Yucca sheriff and his gang rescue them and abduct Madeline. Harry takes his gun, rescues the girl, and lures the gang to his cabin where he tricks them into drinking some contaminated water. After the men are recaptured, Harry's foreman is elected sheriff of Yucca County, and Harry and Madeline marry.