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Charles Ray in "The Sheriff's Son"
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Royal Beaudry (played by Charles Ray) peers cautious from the open door of a rough stone building with a revolver in his hand in a scene still from "The Sheriff's Son" (Paramount, 1919).
1919
Paramount Pictures, Inc.
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