Stairs of Sand

Jun 8, 1929

1h 0m

★ 0.0

A fighting man's hopeless love and heroic sacrifice for a woman!

Overview

An outlaw with a Heart of Gold sacrificing his own life for the happiness of two young people in love.

Genres

Romance

Western

Production Companies

Paramount Pictures

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Cast

Lacey

Wallace Beery

Ruth Hutt

Jean Arthur

Adam Wansfell (as Phillips R. Holmes)

Phillips Holmes

Boss Stone

Fred Kohler

Tim

Chester Conklin

Sheriff Collishaw

Guy Oliver

Babe

Lillian Worth

Stage Driver

Frank Rice

Waiter (as Clarence L. Sherwood)

C.L. Sherwood

Bertha Sloan loses her job as a sewing-machine girl and subsequently is employed as telephone girl with a lingerie manufacturing company. She soon falls in love with the assistant shipping clerk, Roy Davis, and is promoted to chief model for the firm, owing to the patronage of Morton, the wealthy and wicked manager. Bertha is about to take a position in Paris as designer when Morton lures her to his home.

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