Desert Gold (1926)

Plot Summary

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.

Full Cast & Characters

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

Director & Crew

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