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Riders of the Purple Sage (1941 film)

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Riders of the Purple Sage
Directed byJames Tinling
Screenplay byWilliam Bruckner
Robert F. Metzler
Based onRiders of the Purple Sage
1912 novel
by Zane Grey
Produced bySol M. Wurtzel
StarringGeorge Montgomery
Mary Howard
Robert Barrat
CinematographyLucien N. Andriot
Edited byNick DeMaggio
Music byCyril J. Mockridge
Distributed byTwentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Release date
  • October 10, 1941 (1941-10-10)
Running time
54 min.
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Riders of the Purple Sage is a 1941 American Western film based on the novel by Zane Grey, directed by James Tinling, and starring George Montgomery as Lassiter and Mary Howard as Jane Withersteen. The picture is the fourth of five screen adaptations of Grey's novel produced across an eight-decade span.

Premise

Jim Lassiter (George Montgomery) learns early on that his niece Fay Larkin (Patty Patterson) has been cheated out of her inheritance by crooked Judge Dyer (Robert Barrat).[1]

Cast

Other films based on novel

References

  1. ^ "Riders of the Purple Sage (1941) - James Tinling | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related | AllMovie".