The Desert Man

The Desert Man (1917)


  • Genre: Western
  • Release Date: 1917-04-22
  • Runtime: 0h 50min
  • Production Company: New York Motion Picture
  • Production Country: United States of America
  • Director: William S. Hart

Summary

William S. Hart directs and stars in a film that is a typical Western of the era. He plays Jim, a prospector who lands in the town of Broken Hope, and the name pretty much describes its inhabitants. Jim meets and falls in love with Jennie (Margery Wilson), whose father (Walt Whitman) is gravely ill. Jim rounds up a reluctant doctor from another town to tend to the old man, but he dies anyway. The doctor, however, gains Jennie's trust and she runs off with him. Only then does he tell her he's already married. She leaves immediately, but is too proud to go home so she finds work as a dance hall girl at Tacoma Jake's saloon. Jim, meanwhile, finds gold near Broken Hope, which raises its inhabitants' attitudes considerably. But the bad element is still there, and Jim is chasing after a group of kidnappers when he enters Tacoma Jake's saloon and sees Jennie. Jim not only overcomes the bad guys, he gets the girl, too.

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  • William S. Hart

    as Jim Alton
  • Margery Wilson

    as Jennie
  • Buster Irving

    as Joey
  • Henry Belmar

    as Razor Joe
  • Milton Ross

    as Tacoma Jake
  • Jack Livingston

    as Dr. Howard
  • Walt Whitman

    as Old Burns
  • Josephine Headley

    as Katy
Directing William S. Hart Director
Writing Lambert Hillyer Writer
Writing Martin Brown Story
Production Thomas H. Ince Producer
Camera Joseph H. August Director of Photography

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