The Desert Man
(1917) American
B&W : Five reels
Directed by William S. Hart

Cast: William S. Hart [‘Grouchy Jim’ Alton], Margery Wilson, Jack Livingston, Buster Irving, Henry Belmer, Milton Ross, Walter Whitman (Walt Whitman), Josephine Headley

New York Motion Picture Corporation production; distributed by Triangle Distributing Corporation [Kay-Bee]. / Production supervised by Thomas H. Ince. Scenario by Lambert Hillyer, from a story by Martin Brown. Art direction by Robert Brunton. Cinematography by Joe August. / Released 22 April 1917. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / Production cost: $29,835.17. The film was rereleased in the USA by Enterprise Distributing Corporation. The film has survived only in fragments included in the film The Saga of William S. Hart produced by Blackhawk Films.

Drama: Western.

Synopsis: Synopsis available in Koszarski-Hart p. 66.

Survival Status: Fragmentary print exists; the film is presumed lost.

Listing updated: 22 March 2007.

References: Koszarski-Hart pp. x, 66-68; Weaver-Twenty p. 373.