Desert Gold

Desert Gold

1926 · 70 min · ★ 8.0 · Western

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. According to silentera.com the film survives while Arne Andersen Lost Film Files has it as a lost film.

Directed by George B. Seitz · Written by Lucien Hubbard

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Neil Hamilton George Thorne
Shirley Mason Mercedes Castanada
Robert Frazer Dick Gale
William Powell Snake Landree
Josef Swickard Sebastian Castaneda
George Irving Richard Stanton Gale
Eddie Gribbon One-Found Kelley
Frank Lackteen Yaqui

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