Heritage of the Desert
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Cast & Crew
Lesley Selander
Donald Woods
Evelyn Venable
Russell Hayden
Robert Barrat
Sidney Toler
Film Details
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Synopsis
Tenderfoot John Abbott decides to venture West to survey his landholdings, which are being mismanaged by Henry Holderness. Holderness and his gang are trying to seize control of the entire desert territory, and to accomplish their goal, are terrorizing the ranchers in the territory. Upon his arrival, Abbott is shot by one of Holderness' henchmen and rescued by rancher Andrew Naab. Nursed back to health by Naab's daughter Miriam, Abbott falls in love with the girl, but Naab has been coerced into betrothing her to Snap Thornton, a member of Holderness' gang. Miriam returns Abbott's love, and on her wedding day, she runs away but is captured and held hostage by Holderness. This outrage galvanizes the ranchers in the valley, causing Abbott, Naab and the others to band together to rescue Miriam and rid the land of Holderness and his renegades.
Director
Lesley Selander
Cast
Donald Woods
Evelyn Venable
Russell Hayden
Robert Barrat
Sidney Toler
C. Henry Gordon
Willard Robertson
Paul Guilfoyle
Paul Fix
John "skins" Miller
Reginald Barlow
Crew
D. M. Abrahams
Henry Donovan
Russell Harlan
Norman Houston
Harrison Jacobs
Theodore Joos
Louis R. Lipstone
Frank Loesser
Earl Moser
Lewis J. Rachmil
Sherman Rose
Harry Sherman
J. D. Trop
William H. Wilmarth
Victor Young
Victor Young
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Notes
The opening credits read "Paramount Pictures presents Zane Grey's Heritage of the Desert." Although Screen Achievements Bulletin and onscreen credits Harrison Jacobs as additional dialoguer, modern sources credit him, along with Norman Houston, with screenplay. Modern sources also add Frankie Marvin to the cast. In 1932, Paramount filmed another version of the Zane Grey novel, also titled Heritage of the Desert (see entry above.)
