The Desert Scorpion

The Desert Scorpion
Directed by Otis B. Thayer
Story by L. V. Jefferson
Distributed by Arrow Film Corporation
Release dates
  • January 15, 1920 (1920-01-15)
Running time
 6 Reels
Country United States

The Desert Scorpion (originally titled The Last of the Open Range) is a 1920 western silent film directed by Otis B. Thayer and starring Edmund Cobb and Vida Johnson. The film was shot in Denver, Colorado by the Thayer's Art-O-Graf film company.[1][2][3][4]

Plot

A feud between sheepherders and cattlemen heats up when the cattlemetn set fire to the sheepherder's homes. The Sheepherder, who is in love with the Cattle Queen's daughter, leads a robbery on the cattlemen's bank. The Sheriff's daughter is impregnated and deserted by the Cattle Queen's daughter's fiance. The sheepherders rescue her and abduct the Cattle King's daughter to nurse her back to health. The cattlemen track them back to the cabin where everything is revealed and forgiven. And the Cattle Queen's daughter falls in love with the Sheepherder.

Cast

Crew

References

  1. ↑ "A Guide to Silent Westerns" By Larry Langman, Greenwood press 1992, page 116
  2. ↑ "Western and Frontier Film and Television Credits 1903-1995: Section I. Actors and actresses. Section II. Directors, producers, and writers" by Harris M. Lentz, McFarland, 1996, pages 169, 771
  3. ↑ "Eighty Silent Film Stars: Biographies and Filmographies of the Obscure to the Well Known" by George A. Katchmer, McFarland, 1991, page 144
  4. ↑ "The strong, silent type: over 100 screen cowboys, 1903-1930" by Buck Rainey, McFarland & Company Incorporated Pub, 2004, page 159-160

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