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Desert Gold (1936)

1936 · Feature film · 54 min · dir. James P. Hogan

GREED For A Girl and Gold Proved To Be the Undoing of a Renegade!

  • Action
  • Drama
  • Western

Synopsis

Chet Kasedon is after the Indians hidden gold mine but Chief Moya will not reveal it's location. He has also hired mining engineers Gale and Mortimer to locate the mine. When Gale sees Kasedon's cruelty to Moya, he switches sides.

Synopsis from TMDb

Details

Director
James P. Hogan
Writer
Zane Grey
Cinematography
George T. Clemens
Studio
Paramount Pictures
Released
1936-03-26
Running time
54 minutes

Cast & crew

Reviews on the Internet Archive

★★ · Tom Keene, Obnoxious & Robert Cummings, Silly · Poohbah70 · 2019-12-09

One of the worst, even though Buster Crabbe (Moya), the Indian leader and the Indians win. Crabbe gives a dignified portrayal of the Chief and there are good social politics in an otherwise disappointing movie. Smiling Tom Keene forces himself on beautiful Marsha Hunt - yes, she likes him and marries him at the end - but the way Keene goes about courtship is obnoxious and hard to take. IMDb says Hunt, active from 1925-2008, appeared in 115 movies/TV shows - not a shameless self promoter, her career stalled in the 1940s and McCarthy-era blacklisting in the 1950s again kept her from stardom.…

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