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The Painted Desert ()

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Two men find an abandoned baby and fight over the ownership of the child, resulting in lifelong rivalry.
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Bill Holbrook (as Bill Boyd)
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Mary Ellen Cameron
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Cash Holbrook
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Jeff Cameron
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Rance Brett
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Tonopah
Hugh Adams ...
Dynamite
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Bob Carson
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Kirby
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Judge Matthews
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Tex (as Guy Edward Hearn)
William Le Maire ...
Denver (as William LeMaire)
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Provney
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Miner (uncredited)
George Burton ...
Santa Fe (uncredited)
Cy Clegg ...
Miner (uncredited)
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Buck's Partner (uncredited)
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Steve - Ore Wagon #2 Shotgun Rider (uncredited)
Brady Kline ...
Miner (uncredited)
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Rider (uncredited)
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Shotgun Rider for Bill's Wagon (uncredited)
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Townsman (uncredited)
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Bill (uncredited)
Rose Plumer ...
Judge Matthews' Housekeeper (uncredited)
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Buck (uncredited)

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Howard Higgin
Tom Buckingham ... (uncredited)

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Tom Buckingham ... (story by) &
Howard Higgin ... (story by)

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E.B. Derr ... producer (produced by)

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Francis Gromon ... (uncredited)

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Edward Snyder ... (photographed by)

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Clarence Kolster

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Carroll Clark

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Gwen Wakeling

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Bert Gilroy ... assistant director (uncredited)

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Homer Ackerman ... sound engineer
Ben Winkler ... sound engineer
Earl A. Wolcott ... sound engineer (uncredited)

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Cornelius 'Carney' Gialand ... camera/electrical (uncredited)
Joseph LaShelle ... camera operator (uncredited)

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Francis Gromon ... musical director

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Colbert Clark ... script clerk (uncredited)

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C.E. Sullivan ... vice president: Pathé Studios Inc.
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Plot Summary

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? Written by Rod Crawford

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Taglines BLAZING ACTION The mad midnight stampede of bellowing cattle-a twenty mule team race along the edge of a precipice-the plunge of an ore-laden wagon over a cliff! (Print Ad-Wisconsin News, ((Milwaukee, Wisc.)) 21 February 1931) See more »
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Also Known As
  • Les couleurs du temps (France)
  • Le désert rouge (France)
  • Les couleurs du désert (France)
  • Feindschaft (Germany)
  • El desierto pintado (Spain)
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Trivia William Boyd and Clark Gable, during the making of the film (11 October 1930), narrowly escaped serious injury from falling rock after two tons of explosives went off with considerably more force than planned in Dinosaur Canyon, some 70 miles northwest of Flagstaff, Arizona. While Boyd and Gable were 200 feet from the blast, rocks and boulders rained down between where they were standing. Not so lucky were a number of technicians, some 15 of whom were taken to hospitals in Flagstaff and Tuba City, and director Howard Higgin, who suffered a broken ankle and various cuts. The female lead, Helen Twelvetrees, had already returned to Los Angeles, as most of the principal photography was completed. Dynamite and black powder had been placed in the face of a 400-foot cliff and in an old mine tunnel, the explosion being expected to crumble the cliff. Unexpected presence of hard rock lent the blast violence that had not been anticipated, and showered rock and stone over an area of nearly half a mile. See more »
Movie Connections Featured in Hollywood: The Great Stars (1963). See more »
Soundtracks Oh! Susanna See more »
Quotes [Cash and Jeff rescue a baby from a deserted wagon]
Cash Holbrook: What have we got that'll feed his gizzard? He can't chaw jerky!
Jeff Cameron: Aw, you don't know nothin'. There's oatmeal gruel and a mite of bacon grease'll see him through.
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