
Feature film — 1931
The Painted Desert (1931)
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?
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Director: Howard Higgin
On screen
Cast & crew

William Boyd
Bill Holbrook

Helen Twelvetrees
Mary Ellen Cameron

William Farnum
Cash Holbrook

J. Farrell MacDonald
Jeff Cameron

Clark Gable
Rance Brett

Charles Sellon
Tonopah

Wade Boteler
Bob Carson

Will Walling
Kirby
Hugh Adams
Dynamite

Edmund Breese
Judge Matthews

Edward Hearn
Tex (as Guy Edward Hearn)
William Le Maire
Denver (as William LeMaire)
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