Beyond the Law

Beyond the Law (1918)

When Deputy US Marshal Frank Dalton is killed in the line of duty, his brothers Bob and Grat are appointed to replace him. However, when they discover corruption in the higher echelons of the Marshals Service, they resign in disgust. Grat is cheated by a crooked gambler and takes back his money at gunpoint, but that winds up getting them labeled as robbers. Grat is wrongly accused of train robbery and imprisoned. When he breaks out of prison he and his brother decide to take their revenge by actually robbing the express company that falsely accused him in the first place.

Date of release
1918-11-26
TMDB
9.0 / 10 (1)
Genres
Drama, Western
Director
Theodore Marston

Casting

Interesting facts

Beyond the Law is a 1918 American silent Western film directed by Theodore Marston. It was based on a serial story of the same name, authored by Emmett Dalton, the lone surviving brother of the Dalton Gang, who appears in the film as himself and two of his deceased brothers.

Background

Emmett Dalton wrote a serial story recounting "the exploits he and his brother outlaws perpetrated." Titled Beyond the Law, it was published in The Wide World Magazine, a London monthly, starting in May 1918. The same month, Dalton moved to Gastonia, North Carolina, as did the company he was the general manager of, the Southern Feature Film Corporation.

Showings of the film were reported by various newspapers starting in early 1919, including in Washington, D.C.; Newport News, Virginia; and Dalton's home city at the time, Gastonia. These reports also highlighted that Dalton personally attended screenings of the movie and would "lecture" at each performance.

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