The Human Tornado (1925)
The Whiz-Bang Boy In His Greatest Thriller!
Jim Marlow's brother, Chet, who has come west to manage the family mining properties, cheats Pete Daley out of his property. Pete enters Chet's office at night and robs the safe, being seen in the act by Tom Crowley. Pete hides the strongbox and sends a letter to his daughter, Marion, stating its location. Jim gets the letter and finds the strongbox, running afoul of Crowley, who shoots him. The sheriff arrests Jim for stealing the box, and Crowley attempts to take the box from the sheriff at gunpoint. The sheriff shoots Crowley, and Crowley, mortally wounded, tells the sheriff that Pete Daley was the man responsible for the original theft of the box. A lawyer who has been investigating Chet discovers that he has cheated Jim out of the substantial part of his rightful inheritance; Chet is sent to jail, and Jim settles down with Marion Daley.
- Date of release
- 1925-06-21
- TMDB
- 7.0 / 10 (1)
- Runtime
- 50m
- Genres
- Drama, Western
- Director
- Ben F. Wilson
Casting
- Yakima Canutt — Jim Marlow
- Bert Sprotte — Chet Marlow
- Nancy Leeds — Marion Daley
- Lafe McKee — Peter Daley
- Joe Rickson — Tom Crowley
- Slim Allen — Sheriff Cutter
Interesting facts
The Human Tornado is a 1925 American silent Western film directed by Ben F. Wilson and starring Yakima Canutt, Bert Sprotte, and Lafe McKee.
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