Set Free is a 1927 American silent Western film directed by Arthur Rosson and starring Art Acord, Olive Hasbrouck, and Claude Payton.

[1][2] As described in a film magazine,[3] a stranger known as “Side Show Saunders,” who entertains the crowd in front of the general store with his horse, dog, and banjo, wins only the contempt of Holly Farrell, the pretty ward of Sam Cole, the proprietor of the store, who has her opinion of a man who will let a poor horse and dog earn his living for him.

At this opportune moment Tanner hears that Saunders is an escaped convict and it suits his purpose to place the blame for the forthcoming robbery on him, so he first informs Holly that Saunders is “wanted” and then lures him, by means of a forged note, to the supposedly deserted hut at Farrell’s Folly Mine.

Another of Tanner’s henchmen then turns up unexpectedly and says that he has discovered a rich gold vein in the Folly Mine which he has been working in secret.

Tanner, seeing a chance to make millions by simply marrying the young woman who owns the mine, decides to give up the idea of stealing the $40,000 and drives to the town to find Holly, leaving Saunders, who is apparently unconscious, locked in the hut.