A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2024 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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	Shirley Mason and Neil Hamilton. Photograph: Silent Era image collection.

Cast: Neil Hamilton [Lieutenant 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 [the Yaqui], Richard Howard [the sergeant], Bernard Siegel [the goat herder], Aline Goodwin [Alarcon’s wife], Ralph Yearsley [the halfwit], George Rigas [Verd]

Famous Players-Lasky Corporation production; distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation [A George B. Seitz Production; A Paramount Picture]. / Scenario by Lucien Hubbard, from the novel Desert Gold by Zane Grey. Production supervision by Hector Turnbull and B.P. Schulberg. Cinematography by Charles Edgar Schoenbaum. Presented by Adolph Zukor and Jesse L. Lasky. / © 20 April 1926 by Famous Players-Lasky Corporation [LP22626]. Premiered circa 21 March 1926. Released 19 April 1926. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Powell’s 14th film. The novel was previously filmed as Desert Gold (1919).

Drama: Western.

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

Survival status: Print exists.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

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

Listing updated: 22 September 2024.

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