The Painted Desert

The Painted Desert

:"For other uses, see Painted Desert"Infobox Film
name = The Painted Desert


image_size = 200px
caption = DVD cover for the film
director = Howard Higgin
producer = E. B. Derr
writer = Tom Buckingham
narrator =
starring = William Boyd
Clark Gable
music = Francis Gromon
cinematography = Edward Snyder
editing = Clarence Kolster
distributor = RKO Radio Pictures
released = 7 March 1931
runtime =
country = USA
language = English
budget =
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imdb_id = 0022243

"The Painted Desert" (1931) is a film released by RKO Radio Pictures which marks the debut of Clark Gable in a talkie. Gable's performance as Rance Brett, an unshaven former criminal who does not feel sorry about the crimes he has committed, made him an important supporting actor overnight as the result of an avalanche of unexpected fan mail and opened the door for him to become "The King of Hollywood" during the 1930s.

Gable's extraordinarily powerful voice proved extremely effective for sound films. The low-budget Western starred William Boyd in his pre-Hopalong Cassidy days as well as early sound starlet Helen Twelvetrees. Oddly, another actor with a powerful voice, Robert Mitchum, also started out playing a bearded villain in a William Boyd movie twelve years later. Both Gable and Mitchum drew so much fan mail that the studios had no choice but to take notice.

Cast

William Boyd ... Bill Holbrook (as Bill Boyd)
Helen Twelvetrees ... Mary Ellen Cameron
William Farnum ... Bill 'Cash' Holbrook
J. Farrell MacDonald ... Jeff Cameron
Clark Gable ... Rance Brett
Charles Sellon ... Tonopah
Hugh Adams ... 'Dynamite'
Wade Boteler ... Bob Carson - Ore Wagon #1 Driver
Will Walling ... Kirby
Edmund Breese ... Judge Matthews
Edward Hearn ... Tex (as Guy Edward Hearn)
William Le Maire ... Denver (as William LeMaire)
Richard Cramer ... Provney - Ore Wagon #1 Shotgun Rider


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