The Painted Desert
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| The Painted Desert | |
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 DVD cover for the film |
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| Directed by | Howard Higgin |
| Produced by | E. B. Derr |
| Written by | Tom Buckingham |
| Starring | William Boyd Clark Gable |
| Music by | Francis Gromon |
| Cinematography | Edward Snyder |
| Editing by | Clarence Kolster |
| Distributed by | Pathé Exchange |
| Release date(s) | March 7, 1931 |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
The Painted Desert (1931) is a film released by RKO Radio Pictures which marks the debut of Clark Gable in a talkie. Gable's performance as Rance Brett, an unshaven former criminal who does not feel sorry about the crimes he has committed, made him an important supporting actor overnight as the result of an avalanche of unexpected fan mail and opened the door for him to become "The King of Hollywood" during the 1930s. Another actor with an extraordinarily powerful voice, Robert Mitchum, also started out playing a bearded villain in a William Boyd Western film twelve years later and drew a similarly huge quantity of fan mail.
The low-budget Western stars William Boyd in his pre-Hopalong Cassidy days as well as early sound star Helen Twelvetrees.
[edit] Cast (in credits order)
- William Boyd as Bill Holbrook
- Helen Twelvetrees as Mary Ellen Cameron
- William Farnum as Bill 'Cash' Holbrook
- J. Farrell MacDonald as Jeff Cameron
- Clark Gable as Rance Brett
- Charles Sellon as Tonopah
- Hugh Adams as 'Dynamite'
- Wade Boteler as Bob Carson - Ore Wagon #1 Driver
- Will Walling as Kirby
- Edmund Breese as Judge Matthews
- Edward Hearn as Tex
- William Le Maire as Denver
- Richard Cramer as Provney - Ore Wagon #1 Shotgun Rider
[edit] External links
- The Painted Desert at the Internet Movie Database
- The Painted Desert is available for free download at the Internet Archive [more]
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