Branding Broadway is a 1918 American silent Western film directed by and starring William S. Hart, written by C. Gardner Sullivan, and produced by Thomas H. Ince and Hart.
[1] A tough cowboy, Robert Sands (played by William S. Hart) is banished from an Arizona town for his drunk and disorderly comment.
He moves to New York and gets a job as bodyguard and guardian to a wealthy and spoiled young man.
He falls in love with a restaurant owner (played by Seena Owen) who has compromising letters from the young man Sands is charged with protecting.
[2] The film is preserved in the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA for short) collection in New York.