Sin Town is a 1929 American silent Western film directed by J. Gordon Cooper and William K. Howard and starring Elinor Fair, Ivan Lebedeff and Hugh Allan.
It is a contemporary-set Western, in which two World War I veterans are wrongly accused of killing a rancher and arrested for murder.
[1][2]: 412 "Silk" Merrick and "Chicken" O'Toole are two World War I veterans who head West.
Merrick escapes from jail and helps another rancher burn down Sin Town.
In the scenes of burning Sin Town, the buildings that were burned were part of the Harold Lloyd studios, which was being cleared to make room for University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).