title: Blue Blazes (film)
text: # Blue Blazes (film)
  
  Blue Blazes is a 1926 American silent Western film directed by Joseph Franz and Milburn Morante and starring Pete Morrison, Jim Welch, and Barbara Starr.
  
  ## Plot
  
  As described in a film magazine review, Grace Macy searches for money hidden by her grandfather just before he was killed by thieves. She hears a dying criminal's confession which brands McKeller as the murderer. Buck Fitzgerald offers to help her. Dee Halloran knows that McKeller is innocent. Buck attacks Grace to obtain the confession, but she escapes to Death Wash, where her grandfather's deserted cabin is located, pursued by Buck and his men. Dee comes to the rescue of Grace, locates the missing money, and wins her affection.
  
  ## Cast
  
  * Pete Morrison as Dee Halloran
  * Jim Welch as McKeller
  * Barbara Starr as Grace Macy
  * Dick La Reno Jr. as Jess Macy
  * Les Bates as Buck Fitzgerald
  * Jerome La Grasse as Matt Bunker
  * James B. Lowe as Rastus
  
  ## Reception
  
  The magazine, Photoplay, called the film "fair" with "usual riding, shooting, conflict and love" for a western of its time.
  
  