The Painted Desert

January. 18,1931      NR
Rating:
5.2
Trailer Synopsis Cast

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?

William Boyd as  Bill Holbrook
Helen Twelvetrees as  Mary Ellen Cameron
William Farnum as  Cash Holbrook
J. Farrell MacDonald as  Jeff Cameron
Clark Gable as  Rance Brett
Charles Sellon as  Tonopah
Wade Boteler as  Bob Carson
Will Walling as  Kirby
Edmund Breese as  Judge Matthews
Edward Hearn as  Tex (as Guy Edward Hearn)

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