Overlooked Films: THE RETURN OF DRAW EGAN (1916)

Here's a look at why William S. Hart was such a popular cowboy star. He's just so ding-danged cool. Check out the way he rolls and lights a cigarette. After escaping from a posse, masked outlaw Draw Egan, the baddest man on the border, moseys into the town of Yellow Dog. While admiring a babe in a saloon, he's annoyed by one of the local toughs, and promptly knocks him flat. The townsfolk are so impressed they hire him as their new marshal. And that's only the beginning . . .