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The Painted Desert
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The Painted Desert

Jan 18, 1931
1h 19m
★ 4.7

BLAZING ACTION

Overview

Western pardners Jeff and Cash find a baby boy in an otherwise deserted emigrants' camp, and clash over which is to be "father." They are still bitterly feuding years later when they own adjacent ranches. Bill, the foundling whom Cash has raised to young manhood, wants to end the feud and extends an olive branch toward Jeff, who now has a lovely daughter. But during a mining venture, the bitterness escalates. Is Bill to be set against his own adoptive father?

Genres

Western

Production Companies

Pathé Exchange

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Cast

William Boyd

Bill Holbrook

William Boyd

Helen Twelvetrees

Mary Ellen Cameron

Helen Twelvetrees

William Farnum

Cash Holbrook

William Farnum

J. Farrell MacDonald

Jeff Cameron

J. Farrell MacDonald

Clark Gable

Rance Brett

Clark Gable

Charles Sellon

Tonopah

Charles Sellon

Wade Boteler

Bob Carson

Wade Boteler

Will Walling

Kirby

Will Walling

Hugh Adams

Dynamite

Hugh Adams

Edmund Breese

Judge Matthews

Edmund Breese

Edward Hearn

Tex (as Guy Edward Hearn)

Edward Hearn

William Le Maire

Denver (as William LeMaire)

William Le Maire