The silent screen's King of Cowboys, Tom Mix, also had a knack for knockabout comedy, as seen in these six shorts from the mid-teens, five co-starring his future wife Victoria Forde.
CACTUS JIM (1915): Ranch hand Tom advertises for a wife and a Chicago shop girl accepts... but later declines. To avoid being ribbed back at home, he tries to pass off a female mannequin as the missus!
THE AUCTION SALE OF RUN DOWN RANCH (1915): At a ranch auction, one bidder has the misconception that the land is oil-rich and pays $5000. Once he wises up, the cowpokes must prevent him from stopping payment on the check.
5,000 DOLLAR ELOPEMENT (1916): While Tom and his girl elope, a pair of varmints rob her home. Tom abandons his new bride and heads off in hot pursuit.
LEGAL ADVICE (1916): Tom falls for a lady lawyer and shoots up the town hoping she'll bail him out and put him in her custody.
LOCAL COLOR (1916): Author Vicky arrives at a Western dude ranch to soak up some atmosphere for a story. To give her a thrill, Tom poses as a gun-crazy desperado.
AN ANGELIC ATTITUDE (1916): Tom falls for a newcomer to the West, a pretty artist named Grace... but he has an unexpected rival.
War photographer Robert Thuresson's work is being put on display in Ystad. American Sarah Lyell argues with the photographer before the exhibition and later is found dead, in possession of one of his photos. The case extends beyond Sweden as Wallander finds a motive for the death.
Commissioner Martin Beck's intends to resign after hearing his long-estranged son Micke Sjögren, who even took his mother Agneta's name after she left Martin years ago, was fatally shot by unknown fiends as involuntary-undercover amphetamine courier during Beck's colleagues John Banck and Yvonne Jäder's hunt for Polish drug smugglers. Gunvald Larsson is forced to step up as Martin seems unwilling to return, but his unofficial investigation, triggered by his truly-lush senior neighbor, proves as crucial. Stockholm's crime king's latest bloody victim, a restaurant owner Hakdahl, 'served' in his own roasted chicken spits machine, seems Gunvald and chief 's priority. Meeting Mikey's girl at a dodgy 'dance' club, Martin traces the party drugs his boy used and smuggled to a medical supplies-cover in Cracovia, Poland and ties all cases, worse then feared.
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