The Devil Music Ensemble will perform their original score to thesilent Western comedy gem "Big Stakes" on Saturday night at theChicago Cultural Center in the Loop.
The 70-minute film was directed by Clifford S. Elfelt in 1922 andis filled with action, romance, humor and other staples found inearly Westerns. James Warner stars as a Texan cowboy who falls for aMexican girl and tries to win her from a dashing rival in a contestinvolving Mexican jumping beans. When his new love rejects him, hereturns home just in time to save his blond hometown girl from a KuKlux Klan leader who questions her …
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