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Desert Gold
(1926) American
B&W : Seven reels
Directed by George B. Seitz

Cast: Neil Hamilton [George Thorne], Shirley Mason [Mercedes Castanada], Robert Frazer [Dick Gale], William Powell [Landree], Josef Swickard [Sebastián Castanada], George Irving [Richard Stanton Gale], Eddie Gribbon [‘One Round’ Kelley], Frank Lackteen [Yaqui], Richard Howard [sergeant], Bernard Siegel [goat herder], Aline Goodwin [Alarcon’s wife], Ralph Yearsley [halfwit], George Rigas [Verd]

Famous Players-Lasky Corporation production; distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation. / Production supervised by Hector Turnbull and B.P. Schulberg. Scenario by Lucien Hubbard, from the novel Desert Gold by Zane Grey. Cinematography by Charles Edgar Schoenbaum. Presented by Adolph Zukor and Jesse L. Lasky. / Released March 1926. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / Powell’s 14th film.

Drama: Western.

Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F2 n. F2.1273.

Survival Status: Print exists.

Keywords: Deserts - Mexican-American border - Native Americans: Yaqui tribe - Outlaws - Sandstorms

Listing updated: 9 January 2004.

References: AFI-F1 n. F1.0992; AFI-F2 n. F2.1273; Quirk-Powell pp. 19, 56-57.

 
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