Battle of Elderbush Gulch

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Battle of Elderbush Gulch ★★½ 1913

An ancient pioneering western short famous for innocently employing the nowestablished cliches of bad guy, good guy, and helpless frontier heroine. One of Gish's first films. 22m/B VHS, DVD . Mae Marsh, Alfred Paget, Robert “Bobbie” Harron, Lionel Barrymore, Leslie Loveridge, Lillian Gish; D: D.W. Griffith; C: Billy (G.W.) Bitzer.