Desert Gold (1926 film)

Desert Gold
Film poster
Directed by	George B. Seitz
Written by	Zane Grey
Produced by	Jesse L. Lasky Adolph Zukor
Starring	Neil Hamilton
Cinematography	Charles Edgar Schoenbaum
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	March 6, 1926 (1926-03-06) [1]
Running time	70 minutes
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

Desert Gold advertisement in 1925

Desert Gold is a 1926 American silent Western film directed by George B. Seitz. According to silentera.com the film survives while Arne Andersen Lost Film Files has it as a lost film.^[2][3] Portions of the film were shot near Palm Springs, California.^{[4]: 168–71} It is based on the 1913 novel of the same name by Zane Grey.

Plot

As described in a film magazine review,^[5] George Thorne is a young army lieutenant at a border post. He is in love with Mercedes Castanada who, in the lawless life about the fort, is always in danger of falling into the hands of Snake Landree's bandit gang that is the terror of the region. Into the life of the post comes Dick Gale, a man from the East who is soon engaged in a battle for the heart of the girl, whom he has quickly come to love. He aids her in a battle with the desperados. They escape onto the desert and are lost in a sandstorm. They are rescued by the lieutenant, whom, the young woman confesses to the other man, she loves. The Easterner accepts his defeat in the struggle for her affections.

Cast

• Neil Hamilton as George Thorne
• Shirley Mason as Mercedes Castanada
• Robert Frazer as Dick Gale
• William Powell as Snake Landree
• Josef Swickard as Sebastian Castaneda
• George Irving as Richard Stanton Gale
• Eddie Gribbon as One-Found Kelley
• Frank Lackteen as Yaqui
• Richard Howard as Sergeant
• Bernard Siegel as Goat Herder
• Aline Goodwin as Alarcon's Wife
• Ralph Yearsley as Halfwit
• George Regas as Verd

References

1. The San Francisco Examiner 3 Mar 1926, p 13.
2. Hal Erickson (2012). "NY Times: Desert Gold". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on November 4, 2012. Retrieved June 19, 2011.
3. "Progressive Silent Film List: Desert Gold". silentera.com. Retrieved June 19, 2011.
4. Niemann, Greg (2006). Palm Springs Legends: Creation of a Desert Oasis. San Diego, CA: Sunbelt Publications. p. 286. ISBN 978-0-932653-74-1. OCLC 61211290. (here for Table of Contents)
5. "New Pictures: Desert Gold". Exhibitors Herald. 24 (8). Chicago: Exhibitors Herald Co.: 69–70 February 6, 1926. Retrieved March 14, 2023. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

External links

• Desert Gold at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
• Desert Gold at IMDb