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Director:
Writers:
Rupert Hughes (titles)
Frances Marion (adaptation)
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Release Date:
14 October 1926 (USA) more
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Plot:
While building an irrigation system for a Southwestern desert community, an engineer vies with a local cowboy for the affections of a rancher's daughter. full summary | add synopsis
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Cast

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Ronald Colman ... Willard Holmes
Vilma Bánky ... Barbara Worth

Gary Cooper ... Abe Lee
Charles Lane ... Jefferson Worth
Paul McAllister ... The Seer
E.J. Ratcliffe ... James Greenfield
Clyde Cook ... Tex
Erwin Connelly ... Pat Mooney
Ed Brady ... McDonald
Sammy Blum ... Horace Blanton
Fred Esmelton ... George Cartwright
Bill Patton ... Little Rosebud (as William Patton)
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Runtime:
USA:89 min
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Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
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Continuity: (At 01:16:00) As the town is being warned about the collapse of the gateway, you can see a horse and rider come into the scene from the left. He gets about a third of the way across the set where there is a post on a storefront. He crosses in back of the left side of the post but never comes out on the right side of the post. He simply disappears. There are two similar scenes in rapid succession. The disappearing horse and man are in the second of the two scenes just before the "Run for your lives! The Colorado's coming!" caption. more
Quotes:
Title card: [after a close-up of a dead horse lying in the sand] The withering kiss of the desert. more
Movie Connections:
Featured in "Hollywood" (1980) more

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About the music on the DVD, 6 June 2007
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Author: simonton-4 from United States

There is no mention of the source of the music, but Gaylord Carter played his improvised score for a special showing of The Winning of Barbara Worth on January 28, 1971, and it's a recording of that performance which turned up on the DVD. The instrument was a 36-rank Wurlitzer Pipe Organ. Henry King and Frances Goldwyn were in the audience and both spoke after the film. I was there. Mr. King described his search for a desert that looked like a desert, after finding the Mojave in bloom. He also recalled hearing Gaylord Carter play the organ at the Million Dollar Theatre in Los Angeles in the 1920's, soon after Harold Lloyd recommended Gaylord for the job.

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