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The Painted Desert (1931)

Directed by Howard Higgin

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?

Rated NR | Length 79 minutes

Actors

William Boyd | Helen Twelvetrees | William Farnum | J. Farrell MacDonald | Clark Gable | Charles Sellon | Wade Boteler | Will Walling | Hugh Adams | Edmund Breese | Edward Hearn | William Le Maire | Richard Cramer | W.F. Wallace | Clem Beauchamp | George Burton | Cy Clegg | Edgar Dearing | James Donlan | Brady Kline | Cliff Lyons | Jim Mason | G. Raymond Nye | Rose Plumer | Al St. John