Flashing Spurs

Flashing Spurs
Flashing Spurs
	Lobby card
Directed by	B. Reeves Eason
Written by	William Berke
Produced by	Jesse J. Goldburg
Starring	Bob Custer; Edward Coxen; Marguerite Clayton
Cinematography	Walter L. Griffin
Production; company	Independent Pictures
Distributed by	Film Booking Offices of America
Release date	December 14, 1924;
Running time	50 minutes
Country	United States
Languages	Silent; English intertitles

Flashing Spurs is a 1924 American silent Western film directed by B. Reeves Eason and starring Bob Custer, Edward Coxen, and Marguerite Clayton, who has a dual role of twin sisters.^[1]^[2] A Texas Ranger investigates a woman he believes is mixed up with a gang of outlaws.

Plot

As described in a review in a film magazine,^[3] while following a clue, Sargent Stuart of the Rangers goes to the city and has a fight with two thugs, Frazier and Scarbee, and is overpowered. He makes an escape by crawling into the window of the room of Rena Holden, and is impressed by her. Returning later, he finds that she is gone and a letter indicates she is a crook, a member of Steve Clammert's gang, which is planning to rob miner John Holden. Stuart goes to the mine and sees Ruth Holden and, believing her to be her twin sister Rena, denounces her. Clammert's gang captures him and prepares to kill him when the side of a hill is blown up, but the explosive misfires and he survives. John and Rena, who is masquerading as Ruth, rescue him, and she confesses the plot. They arrive at Clammert's shack in time to rescue Ruth from an attack by Clammert, but Rena is injured during the fight. John forgives Rena, and when she recovers she agrees to become Mrs. Stuart.

Cast

Bob Custer as Ranger Sgt. Stuart
Edward Coxen as Steve Clammert
Marguerite Clayton as Ruth Holden / Rena Holden
Joseph Bennett as Butch Frazier
William T. Hayes as Scarbee
William Malan as John Holden
Andrew Waldron as Flynn
Park Frame as Bill Carbee

Preservation

With no prints of Flashing Spurs located in any film archives,^[4] it is a lost film.

References

↑ Pitts p. 154
↑ Progressive Silent Film List: Flashing Spurs Archived July 25, 2021, at the Wayback Machine at silentera.com
↑ Sewell, Charles S. (January 24, 1925). "Flashing Spurs; Custer's Second for F.B.O. Is Conventional Type of Out-Door Melodrama with Plenty of Action". The Moving Picture World. 72 (4). New York City: Chalmers Publishing Co.: 367. Retrieved July 25, 2021.
↑ "The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Flashing Spurs". memory.loc.gov. Archived from the original on March 21, 2023. Retrieved February 2, 2026.

Bibliography

Langman, Larry. A Guide to Silent Westerns. Greenwood Publishing Group, 1992.

External links

Flashing Spurs at IMDb

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[1] Pitts p. 154

[2] Progressive Silent Film List: Flashing Spurs Archived July 25, 2021, at the Wayback Machine at silentera.com

[MPBW-3] Sewell, Charles S. (January 24, 1925). "Flashing Spurs; Custer's Second for F.B.O. Is Conventional Type of Out-Door Melodrama with Plenty of Action". The Moving Picture World. 72 (4). New York City: Chalmers Publishing Co.: 367. Retrieved July 25, 2021.

[4] "The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Flashing Spurs". memory.loc.gov. Archived from the original on March 21, 2023. Retrieved February 2, 2026.

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