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The Desert Man

04/22/1917

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0hr 50min

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Western

STORY

William S. Hart directs and stars in a film that is a typical Western of the era. He plays Jim, a prospector who lands in the town of Broken Hope, and the name pretty much describes its inhabitants. Jim meets and falls in love with Jennie (Margery Wilson), whose father (Walt Whitman) is gravely ill. Jim rounds up a reluctant doctor from another town to tend to the old man, but he dies anyway. The doctor, however, gains Jennie's trust and she runs off with him. Only then does he tell her he's already married. She leaves immediately, but is too proud to go home so she finds work as a dance hall girl at Tacoma Jake's saloon. Jim, meanwhile, finds gold near Broken Hope, which raises its inhabitants' attitudes considerably. But the bad element is still there, and Jim is chasing after a group of kidnappers when he enters Tacoma Jake's saloon and sees Jennie. Jim not only overcomes the bad guys, he gets the girl, too.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • William S. Hart
  • Margery Wilson
  • Buster Irving
  • Henry Belmar
  • Milton Ross

    Director

  • Lambert Hillyer

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • New York Motion Picture
  • Kay-Bee Pictures

    Production Countries

  • United States of America

LANGUAGES

    Cast

    William S. Hart

    Jim Alton

    Margery Wilson

    Jennie

    Buster Irving

    Joey

    Henry Belmar

    Razor Joe

    Milton Ross

    Tacoma Jake

    Jack Livingston

    Dr. Howard

    Walt Whitman

    Old Burns

    Josephine Headley

    Katy