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The Painted Desert

5.219311h 19mNRMovieWestern

Western pardners Jeff and Cash find a baby boy in an otherwise deserted emigrants' camp, and clash over which is to be "father." They are still bitterly feuding years later when they own adjacent ranches. Bill, the foundling whom Cash has…

DirectorHoward Higgin
WritersTom Buckingham·Howard Higgin
ProducerE.B. Derr

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Cast · Directed by Howard Higgin

WBWilliam Boyd
William Boyd
Bill Holbrook
HTHelen Twelvetrees
Helen Twelvetrees
Mary Ellen Cameron
WFWilliam Farnum
William Farnum
Cash Holbrook
JMJ. Farrell MacDonald
J. Farrell MacDonald
Jeff Cameron
CGClark Gable
Clark Gable
Rance Brett
CSCharles Sellon
Charles Sellon
Tonopah
WBWade Boteler
Wade Boteler
Bob Carson
WWWill Walling
Will Walling
Kirby
HA
Hugh Adams
Dynamite
EBEdmund Breese
Edmund Breese
Judge Matthews
EHEdward Hearn
Edward Hearn
Tex (as Guy Edward Hearn)
WM
William Le Maire
Denver (as William LeMaire)

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