IMDb plot summary: Returning from the war, Buck finds his younger brother in trouble; while trailing him he gets caught by Murdock, who takes his letter of introduction to the Del Rays.
Directed by Louis King. Starring Buck Jones, Carmelita Geraghty, and Thomas Carr.
Men Without Law follows a soldier who comes home from the war to find his younger brother getting into trouble with the wrong people. The soldier tries to help his brother get everything pulled together, but the leader of the brother's gang isn't about to let him leave. This story kind of wanders all over the place for being so short, and as I typed up the synopsis I kept remembering other subplots that I'd forgotten about -- there's a whole thing with the family of one of the soldier's army buddy, and the gang leader impersonates him to get their money... It's definitely entertaining enough, but it meanders. I wish it settled more definitively on some of these stories, because each one individually is pretty engaging, but watching them interact with each other isn't. A pretty middle-of-the-road watch for my 1930 project.
How it entered my Flickchart:
Men Without Law < Hamlet (2009)
Men Without Law > City Slickers
Men Without Law > Val
Men Without Law > A Bridge Too Far
Men Without Law < Meet John Doe
Men Without Law > Arlo the Alligator Boy
Men Without Law < Anna
Men Without Law < Critical Care
Men Without Law < The Morning After
Men Without Law > Licorice Pizza
Men Without Law < The Lighthouse
Men Without Law < The Baby-Sitters Club
Final spot: #2195 out of 4022, or 45%.
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